Understanding Applications Manager

Introduction Page of Applications Manager. It gives an overview of the working of Applications Manager.

Has three views: Summary, Availability, Performance

Summary: Has a dashboard that shows the health and availability of all the Monitor Groups in a snapshot . Lists all the Monitor Groups created and their details and graphical representation of the Monitor Group with most critical alerts. Recent 5 alerts can be also be viewed.

Availability: Gives the Availability history of the Monitors/ Monitor Groups in a snapshot. You can get the data for either the last 24 hours or the last 30 days.

Performance: Gives the Health history and events of Monitor/Monitor Groups in a dashboard. You can get the data for either the last 24 hours or the last 30 days (excluding today).

Lists all the Monitor Types supported and provides the number of Monitor being discovered in the network. You can also click on the Monitor Types to view information of their Monitors. On clicking the Monitor Types, you can view the Availability Dashboard, Performance Dashboard and the List View that shows the performance attributes of the Monitor in detail.

Lists the alerts generated by the Monitor and their attributes, based on predefined thresholds. The view is customizable such that you can view alerts for all or for particular application or Monitor Type, list 10/25/50/75/100/125 entries in a single view, etc.

Lists the Monitor Groups and the different Monitor Types for which the reports are generated. Reports can be viewed based on attributes listed for the corresponding Monitor Type.

Provides information on getting assistance from the Applications Manager Technical center. It also provides monitoring information on Applications Manager which monitors itself.

Lists the admin operations such as creating new application, new Monitor, etc. to be performed for monitoring.

Lists the monitors according to the various categories like Applications Servers, Database Servers etc.,

Lists all the details of the monitors that are monitored. From this view you can carry out bulk admin operations like updating user name and passwords across monitors. Refer Bulk Configuration for further details.

Maps all the monitor groups in a Google Map. Refer Google Map Business view for further details.

Lists all the monitors using icons, shows the host and the monitors assosciated with it symbolically

Lists the monitors within the host in a tabular format.

The plasma view enables you to have a snapshot of what is happening with the monitors, at one glance. The view can be put up on a plasma screen, and you can have a look even when you are not in front of the monitor.

Lists all Monitor Groups and the Sub-Groups available. You can associate Monitors, Copy Paste Monitor, configure alerts through this Monitor Group View itself. (as like Bulk Config view). In addition, you can enable or disable actions via this view itself, i.e, even if you have already configured actions like sending EMail, through 'disable action' you can prevent EMail action.