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HP Application Discovery Getting Started Guide Version 3.0.00

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HP Part Number: 5991-8649

Published: June 2007

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Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

About This Document

Intended Audience
New and Changed Information in This Edition
Typographic Conventions
Related Information
Publishing History
HP Encourages Your Comments

1 Introduction

Features of Application Discovery
Application Discovery Components
How Memory Usage is Calculated

2 Configuring Components

Install Application Discovery Agent on a Host or Managed Node

Configure the WBEM Provider Password

Complete Certificate Exchange

Using HP SIM to Complete Certificate Exchange
Completing Certificate Exchange from the Command Line

3 Get Started with Application Discovery

Start Application Discovery

Understanding Data Views

AD Agents View
AD Server View
AD Templates View
Applications Views
Discovery View Description
Event View
Host Views
Package View

Refine Application Discovery

How Discovery Works
Understand Your Current Discovery State
Refine Discovery by Checking Agent State
Explanation of Agent State
Refine Discovery by Creating Application Templates

Modify Agent Behavior

Start the Application Discovery Agent
Stop a Running Agent
Reconfigure a Running Agent

Manage Application Templates

Find an Application Template
Change AD Application Template Values
Create a New Template

Set Event Attributes

Introduction to Event Settings in Application Discovery
Setting Event Severity
Setting Alert Location

Change the Data View

Sort Data in View Tables
Filter Data in View Tables
Other Controls Available from Right-Clicking on a View Table
Navigate Between Views

4 Getting Assistance in Using Application Discovery

Application Discovery Resources

A Commands for Controlling HP Application Discovery Agent and Certificates

B Key to Event Attributes

Event Types
Event Severity Types
Additional Event Types Specific to Application Discovery
Event Viewing Locations

C Key to Application Template Values

Summary Fields and Their Descriptions

Attribute Fields and Their Descriptions

Rule Fields and Their Descriptions

Create an Application Template Rule

Create an Aggregation Rule
How to Remove Types from the Aggregation Rule

List of Figures

3-1 AD Agents Tab Showing Agent Status and Host Association
3-2 AD Templates Tab Showing Visibility Settings and All Application Discovery Templates
3-3 Application Discovery Template Summary and Edit Buttons
3-4 Running Tab Showing List of Running Application Instances
3-5 Discovery Tab Showing Total Application and Process Discovery Counts
3-6 Events Tab Showing Summaries with Severity Indicators
3-7 Hosts Tab Showing All Hosts Known to Application Discovery
3-8 Summary of Host-Related Data with Application Counts and CPU usage
3-9 Packages Tab Showing All Packages and Visibility Settings
3-10 Segment of Process Inventory Data
3-11 Segment of Package Inventory Data
3-12 Template Summary Including Applications Affected by the Template
3-13 Event Tab Showing Configuration Fields for Data Center and Administrative Events

List of Tables

3-1 Possible Values for Agent State
B-1 Description of Event Types Used in Application Discovery
B-2 Event Severity Types Used in Application Discovery
B-3 Event Types Specific to Application Discovery
B-4 Event Viewing Location Types Used in Application Discovery
C-1 An Example Comparison of Match Behavior in AD and gWLM for Same Executable Path and Arguments

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