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HP Matrix Operating Environment Software User Manual

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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.................................................................11

Understanding application templates.........................................................................................11
How memory usage is calculated.............................................................................................12
Understanding server resource consumption...............................................................................12

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 System Insight Manager to start the agent................................................................15
Starting the agent from the command line........................................................................15

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

Using System Insight Manager 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 .....................................................................................................17
Set color theme.............................................................................................................18
Set number of table rows................................................................................................18

Change the data view........................................................................................................18

Sort data in view tables.................................................................................................18
Filter data in view tables................................................................................................19
Other controls available from right-clicking on a view table.................................................19
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......................................................20
Set visibility for matched applications..............................................................................20
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..............................21

Modifying the maximum size of an event list..........................................................................21

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