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Application Discovery 6.0 Software: UserGuideHP Part Number: 5992-5063Published: February 2010Edition: 1

NOTE:An application inventory in a data center or enterprise setting is sensitive material. Therefore,all communication paths in Application Discovery

Figure 2-1 Segment of process inventory dataFor example, if the discovery ratio is low, the number of processes that Application Discoveryis matching

Refine discovery by creating application templatesApplication Discovery is shipped with a set of default templates that it uses to discoverapplication

• The degree of sharing among processes is unknown. For a given process, the shared memorycan be shared with every process on the system, only some pr

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3 Procedures and examplesWith Application Discovery, you can perform the following tasks:• Check the progress of discovery.• Define an application for

Stop a running agentYou can stop the agent from the top menu bar or from the command line.Using HP SIM to stop the AD agent1. Initiate this task by se

Explanation of agent statesTable 3-1 Possible values for agent stateMeaningValueInstalled, daemon running, connected; able to transfer dataConnectedIn

Screen refresh when clicking tabs or links:Screens with long lists of systems, applications, or packages take more time to refresh. If a screenappears

Change the data viewVarious ways exist to help you sort and filter the data displays so that you can see acrossapplication and server activity and dri

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NOTE:Hidden applications. Note that the filtering discussed in this section concerns manipulatingdata that is currently displayed in the tables. Some

Set visibility for hosts on Application Discovery screensTo help you control the amount of data presented to you, Application Discovery provides sever

The graphic immediately repaints when you change the time span.The impact of discovery on Application Discovery server memory usageMemory use might be

agents, and templates. You can set the desired severity for an event type and the location atwhich the event alert can be seen.Prerequisite: You must

3. Click Submit to save the change.The new settings are applied immediately to the data displays.If needed, you can Cancel the changes that you have m

NOTE:My application does not appear in the “Applications effected...” table. Why? There are severalpossible explanations for this to occur:• It takes

network. As matching completes, applications matching this template description appear in thetable called “Applications effected by this template” (be

Constructing regular expressions:Application Discovery recognizes regular expressions constructed using Perl 5 or POSIX syntaxand semantics. To learn

Application identity and system scope fields and their descriptionsDescriptionFieldApplication identityRequired. Unique name given to the template to

Separation rule fields and their descriptionsDescriptionFieldBy default during initial discovery, Application Discovery sets objects recognized aspack

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Aggregation rule fields and their descriptionsDescriptionFieldRules can be simple or complex, and are based on types that can be added to or deleted f

1. To start, select a radio button for the first type field that you want to add and click the AddRule button. In the example below, the first type ad

4. Continue in this way until you have added all the types that you want in the rule.5. Fill in the empty values to complete the rule description for

The following figure shows an aggregation of multiple processes by specified executable pathinto one application.Figure 3-8 Example of a template aggr

IMPORTANT: When one template overlaps another, the template that captures the most processeshas precedence over competing templates. For this reason,

types are also displayed for a particular host on each individual host page in a table called“Unmatched Processes”.Figure 3-12 Example “unmatched proc

Figure 3-15 Finding data to enter into Aggregation Rule fieldsFor more details about this part of an application template, see “Aggregation rule field

12. Click the link “Go back to Create Monitored Workload Definition” that appears underApplication Discovery at the top of whatever screen you are on.

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4 TroubleshootingThis section is organized by symptom, each of which is followed by possible indicators or causesto investigate. To check logs contain

Setting data polling interval...22Setting eve

Services for HP-UX”. For details on which is the appropriate version to download byoperating system version, please consult the Insight Dynamics insta

3. Check that Application Discovery is showing that the discovery ratio is 100%.a. Click the following tabs in Application Discovery: Admin/Config, th

NOTE: Where large amounts of data are present in tables, it can be useful to sort or filterthe data to find the exact process and associated attribute

If the configuration is still not working, you may see an error message:Ssh Operation failed for node:managed_node. The connection could not be establ

Packages not visible in Application Discovery screens1. Check that the package is marked as 'visible' in Application Discovery.a. Click the

TIP: Alternatively, you can run I300appdisc.pl --a on the command line to limit theconfiguration change to Application Discovery.To identify other con

If you do not see this service, type cms_start from any directory in the Insight Dynamicsinstalled drive. You must be logged in as Administrator on th

application that you are looking for is not in this list, you must run the application so thatit can be discovered.6. Check that Application Discovery

On Microsoft Windows, type C:>net start on the command line of the CMS. You shouldsee a service called Application Discovery in the list of running

Have you recently restored or removed and reinstalled the CMS? :A restore or removal of the central management server also removes the certificate rec

B Key to event attributes...59Event types...

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5 Support and other resourcesThe following resources are available to help you learn how to best use Application Discoveryor to help you if you encoun

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A Commands for controlling Application Discovery agentand certificatesamgrd and agent_config can be run on HP-UX and Linux managed systems where theAp

amgrdNAMEamgrd -- Change Behavior of Application Discovery Agent on Managed SystemSYNOPSISPath: /opt/amgr/bin/amgrd [options]amgrd [-start] [-noreload

-[no]daemon [Do not] run the agent as a daemon. -daemon is the defaultsetting for amgrd. Use -nodaemon only for triage as theagent will die if the ter

FILES/var/opt/amgr/logs/amgrd.log*Has 2 MB limit; then rolls over to alternating backup logs/var/opt/amgr/logs/amgrd.log.1First alternate backup log/v

agent_configNAMEagent_config -- Access Application Discovery Certificate on Managed SystemSYNOPSISPath: /opt/amgr/bin/agent_configagent_config -a [-di

EXAMPLESCheck agent state.# /opt/amgr/bin/agent_config -cAgent not runningRun the agent using amgrd.# /opt/amgr/bin/amgrd -startCheck agent state agai

B Key to event attributesEvent typesTable B-1 Description of event types used in Application DiscoveryDescriptionEvent type nameData center eventsAn a

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Event severity typesTable B-2 Event severity types used in Application DiscoveryMeaningIconIndicates a failure and signals the need for immediate atte

C Error messagesTable C-1 Error messages seen when trying to log inRemedyMessageFor CMS on Microsoft Windows only.1. Confirm that the Application Disc

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D Completing certificate exchangeIntroductionNOTE: The information in this section applies only in the situation where Application DiscoveryVersion 4.

Have you recently restored or removed and reinstalled the CMS? :A restore or removal of the central management server also removes the certificate rec

E Configuring the WBEM provider passwordWBEM is a management information retrieval and command protocol. Application Discoveryuses a WBEM provider to

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Glossaryagent A program with a well-defined task that runs in the background and that is used to captureinformation or do processing tasks.aggregate d

Integrity VM HP Integrity Virtual Machines. A soft partitioning virtualization product that allows you toinstall and run multiple systems (virtual mac

regularexpressionsApplication Discovery recognizes regular expressions constructed using Perl 5 or POSIX syntaxand semantics.runningapplicationAn appl

1 IntroductionThis document describes how to use Application Discovery to monitor applications in a virtualserver environment. This document is for ad

VM Host A server running software such as HP Integrity Virtual Machines, VMware ESX, or MicrosoftVirtual Server, that provides multiple virtual machin

IndexAAD agentchecking state, 46failure on installation, 39AD Agents tab, 11, 20AD serverchecking for running server process, 45, 47not available, 44s

create for Application Discovery agent, 48exchanging from the command line, 63exchanging from within HP Systems Insight Managersoftware, 63troubleshoo

building aggregation rules for application templates,32executabledefining within an application template rule, 30Expand table menu pick, 20Ffeatures,

Ppackagehidden, 21inventory, 11not visible in Application Discovery, 44set agent polling interval for, 22setting data collection frequency, 16setting

WBEM connection, 43string matchingApplication Discovery, 41gWLM as compared to Application Discovery, 41support, 51support information, 51System Scope

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2 Components and conceptsApplication Discovery componentsApplication Discovery contains these components:• The Application Discovery agent, which disc