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Glossary, Central management server, Applications – HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual

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Glossary

agent

A program with a well-defined task that runs in the background and that is used to capture
information or do processing tasks.

aggregate data
views

Screens in Application Discovery that display a collection of data about various objects, often
including system, application, and event data for all known instances of each in one table, but
with emphasis on one aspect of the data.

application

A logically related set of processes active on a host system (a running application ) and/or a
logically related set of files on a host system disk (an installed application).

Application Discovery

recognizes applications based on standard package installation,

templates

that are shipped with the product, and templates that are defined by users.

Application
Discovery

Application Discovery. The HP Insight Dynamics application that inventories running and
installed applications in a network and provides application and process map data used for
creating

workloads

in

HP Insight Virtualization Manager software

.

See also application discovery.

application
discovery

The process of finding applications and gathering performance and location data about them
for display and use.
See also Application Discovery.

Capacity Advisor

Capacity Advisor. The HP Insight Dynamics application that performs analysis and planning
of

workloads

on a

system

or across a set of systems.

central
management
server

See CMS.

CMS

Central management server. A system in the management domain that executes the HP SIM
software. All central operations within HP SIM are initiated from this system.

discovery

In system management applications, the process of finding and identifying network objects. In
HP Systems Insight Manager, discovery finds and identifies all the HP systems within a specified
network. In Application Discovery , discovery finds and identifies all running and installed
applications within a specified network.

discovery ratio

As used by Application Discovery , this is a comparison of matched to

unmatched processes

running on a host. The ratio is the percentage of processes that can be matched to applications.

gWLM

HP Insight Global Workload Manager software for Integrity. The HP Insight Dynamics
application that allows you to centrally define resource-sharing

policies

that you can use across

multiple HP servers. These policies increase system utilization and facilitate controlled sharing
of system resources. gWLM's monitoring abilities provide both real-time and historical
monitoring of the resource allocation.

host

A system or partition that is running an instance of an operating system.

1.
2.

The physical machine that is the HP Integrity Virtual Machines

VM Host

for one or more

virtual machines

.

host name

The name of a system or partition that is running an OS instance.

host OS

The operating system that is running on the host machine.

HP Insight
Global Workload
Manager software
for Integrity

See gWLM.

HP Insight
Virtualization
Manager software

HP Insight Virtualization Manager software. Provides hierarchical visualization of

servers

and

workloads

, with seamless access to the management tools of the HP Insight Dynamics suite

technologies.

HP Integrity
Virtual Machines

See Integrity VM.

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