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HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction......................................................................................................................7

Features of Application Discovery.........................................................................................................7

2 Components and concepts............................................................................................9

Application Discovery components.......................................................................................................9
Refining Application Discovery...........................................................................................................10

How discovery works......................................................................................................................10
Understand your current discovery state........................................................................................10

Discovery ratio...........................................................................................................................10
Warm-up ratio............................................................................................................................11

Refine discovery by checking agent state........................................................................................11
Refine discovery by creating application templates........................................................................12

Understanding application templates..................................................................................................12
How memory usage is calculated.........................................................................................................12
Understanding server resource consumption......................................................................................13

3 Procedures and examples...........................................................................................15

Starting Application Discovery.............................................................................................................15
Modifying agent behavior....................................................................................................................15

Install the Application Discovery agent on a managed node.........................................................15
Start the Application Discovery agent.............................................................................................15

Using HP SIM to start the agent.................................................................................................15
Starting the agent from the command line................................................................................15

Stop a running agent ......................................................................................................................16

Using HP SIM to stop the AD agent..........................................................................................16
Stopping the agent from the command line..............................................................................16

Reconfigure a running agent from the command line....................................................................16

Checking agent state.............................................................................................................................16

Explanation of agent states..............................................................................................................17

Working with data views......................................................................................................................17

Adjusting the user interface............................................................................................................17

Set screen data refresh interval..................................................................................................17
Set general visibility ..................................................................................................................18
Set color theme...........................................................................................................................18
Set number of table rows............................................................................................................18

Change the data view......................................................................................................................19

Sort data in view tables..............................................................................................................19
Filter data in view tables............................................................................................................19
Other controls available from right-clicking on a view table....................................................20
Navigate between views............................................................................................................20

Navigating with tabs ............................................................................................................20
Navigating with table links ..................................................................................................20

Adjusting visibility of applications within Application Discovery data tables..............................20

Set visibility for hosts on Application Discovery screens..........................................................21
Set visibility for matched applications.......................................................................................21
Set visibility for packages on Application Discovery screens....................................................21

Modifying the graphic display of Application Discovery server activity.......................................21

The impact of discovery on Application Discovery server memory usage...............................22

Modifying the maximum size of an event list.................................................................................22

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