HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 3)

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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