Glossary

A program with a well-defined task that runs in the background and that is used to capture information or do processing tasks.

Screens in Application Discovery that display a collection of data about various objects, often including system, application, and event data for all known instances of each in one table, but with emphasis on one aspect of the data.

A logically related set of processes active on a host system (a running application ) and/or a logically related set of files on a host system disk (an installed application).

Application Discovery recognizes applications based on standard package installation, templates that are shipped with the product, and templates that are defined by users.

HP Application Discovery. The VSE Management Software plug-in that inventories running and installed applications in a data network and provides application and process map data for use in workload creation in Virtualization Manager.

The process of finding applications and gathering performance and location data about them for display and use.

Central management server. A system in the management domain that executes the HP Systems Insight Manager software. All central operations within HP Systems Insight Manager are initiated from this system.

In system management applications, the process of finding and identifying network objects. In HP Systems Insight Manager, discovery finds and identifies all the HP systems within a specified network. In Application Discovery, discovery finds and identifies all running and installed applications within a specified network.

As used by Application Discovery, this is a comparison of matched to unmatched processes running on a host. The ratio is the percentage of processes that can be matched to applications.

A package groups application services (individual HP-UX processes) together.

When a file is reduced to a set number of lines based on criteria determined by the system (application) or the software user.

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

An application that is continually or intermittently active and able to consume resources.

Secure Sockets Layer. Protocol for validating identity and for creating an encrypted connection between a server and a Web browser.

An HP-supplied or user-defined set of rules and properties that describe an application and that specify the collection and matching rules for discovering that application. Application Discovery uses these templates to search for and collect information about matching applications.

A process that Application Discovery can discover that does not match existing templates or packages that Application Discovery is using for discovery and monitoring. Unmatched processes might include custom and third-party applications.

Application Discovery makes it possible for you to control the amount of data appearing on user interface screens by letting you determine what applications, packages, or hosts will be visible in the user interface or not. Currently, visibility settings are global in nature, which means they apply to all screens in Application Discovery and are not specific to a particular user or job role.

The period of time during which Application Discovery is comparing discovered processes to the known installations of software and to template definitions of applications.

Web-Based Enterprise Management. A set of web-based information services standards developed by the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. A WBEM provider offers access to a resource. WBEM clients send requests to providers to get information about and access to the registered resources.