HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 3)

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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