HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
1 Introduction......................................................................................................................9
Features of Application Discovery.........................................................................................................9
2 Components and concepts.........................................................................................11
Application Discovery components......................................................................................................11
Refining Application Discovery...........................................................................................................12
How discovery works......................................................................................................................12
Understand your current discovery state........................................................................................12
Discovery ratio...........................................................................................................................12
Warm-up ratio............................................................................................................................13
Refine discovery by checking agent state........................................................................................13
Refine discovery by creating application templates........................................................................14
Understanding application templates..................................................................................................14
How memory usage is calculated.........................................................................................................14
Understanding server resource consumption......................................................................................15
3 Procedures and examples...........................................................................................17
Starting Application Discovery.............................................................................................................17
Modifying agent behavior....................................................................................................................17
Install the Application Discovery agent on a managed node.........................................................17
Start the Application Discovery agent.............................................................................................17
Using HP SIM to start the agent.................................................................................................17
Starting the agent from the command line................................................................................17
Stop a running agent ......................................................................................................................18
Using HP SIM to stop the AD agent..........................................................................................18
Stopping the agent from the command line..............................................................................18
Reconfigure a running agent from the command line....................................................................18
Checking agent state.............................................................................................................................18
Explanation of agent states..............................................................................................................19
Working with data views......................................................................................................................19
Adjusting the user interface............................................................................................................19
Set screen data refresh interval..................................................................................................19
Set general visibility ..................................................................................................................20
Set color theme...........................................................................................................................20
Set number of table rows............................................................................................................20
Change the data view......................................................................................................................21
Sort data in view tables..............................................................................................................21
Filter data in view tables............................................................................................................21
Other controls available from right-clicking on a view table....................................................22
Navigate between views............................................................................................................22
Navigating with tabs ............................................................................................................22
Navigating with table links ..................................................................................................22
Adjusting visibility of applications within Application Discovery data tables..............................22
Set visibility for hosts on Application Discovery screens..........................................................23
Set visibility for matched applications.......................................................................................23
Set visibility for packages on Application Discovery screens....................................................23
Modifying the graphic display of Application Discovery server activity.......................................23
The impact of discovery on Application Discovery server memory usage...............................24
Modifying the maximum size of an event list.................................................................................24
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