Appendix C Key to Application Template Values

The tables on this page provide the definitions for the editable fields in Application Discovery (AD) templates.

Summary Fields. These fields let you provide unique identifiers for the template itself. These fields also include options for restricting the application definition to a particular operating environment.

Attribute Fields. These fields let you set limits on how many users and how many processes can be associated with the template. You can also set visibility of the resulting application in Application Discovery screens.

Rule Fields. These fields let you build a rule that describes the process constituents for the resulting application. Regular expressions are allowed in these fields when designating user, executable path, and command line arguments.

	TIP: Application Discovery recognizes regular expressions constructed using Perl 5 or POSIX syntax and semantics.

	NOTE: Application Discovery (AD) interprets executable path strings differently than Global Workload Manager (gWLM). Application Discovery looks at a process from the perspective of how it is named when it is running. Therefore, to successfully construct an application that Application Discovery recognizes, you must provide attributes (data strings) that describe the running process. Also, when defining an application, keep in mind that Application Discovery looks across your entire network for likely matches, and not just on one particular managed node. It might help to think of the difference between AD and gWLM this way: In AD, an executable and arg[0] are compared directly to one another to make a match. In gWLM, the inode of an executable and the inode of arg[0] are compared to one another to make a match. The following examples demonstrate the different results that you can expect when using the same executable and arguments in Application Discovery as compared to Global Workload Manager (gWLM). Table C-1 An Example Comparison of Match Behavior in AD and gWLM for Same Executable Path and Arguments Example Inputs AD gWLM Executable Process arg[0] /usr/sbin/biod /usr/sbin/biod match match biod no match match ./biod no match match biod /usr/sbin/biod match not allowed biod match not allowed ./biod match not allowed