Applications Manager is a web-based monitoring tool that manages the performance of applications, servers, databases, systems, services, websites, and JMX/SNMP-based custom applications in a complex IT infrastructure. You can find seven module tabs at the top which are explained as follows:
| Tab Name | Description |
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| Intro | Introduction page of Applications Manager. It gives an overview of the working of Applications Manager. |
| Home | Displays the home page of Applications Manager. Has four views: Summary, Business View, Availability and Performance.
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| Monitors | 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. |
| Cloud | Lists all the cloud resources that are added as monitors under Cloud Apps and displayed in the form of Availability, Performance and List Views. |
| APM | Lists the application resources built on various environments that are monitored with complete code-level insights using APM Insight agents. |
| User Experience | Displays the performance metrics of all the resources that are associated with Digital End User Experience with the help of End User Monitoring (EUM) agent. |
| Alarms | Lists the alarms generated by the Monitor and their attributes, based on predefined thresholds. The view is customizable such that you can view alarms for all or for particular application or Monitor Type, list 10/25/50/75/100/125 entries in a single view, etc. |
| Settings | Lists the configuration operations such as creating new application, new monitor, etc. to be performed for monitoring. |
| Reports | 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. |
The left frame consists of links for easy navigation and the top frame consists of links such as Talk back, Help, Personalize etc. common in all the screens. To know more details on these links and icon representation, refer to the Web Client section. The various tables in the web client can be dragged and arranged as per your requirement
Note: Have a look at Getting Started - How to Demos from our website.
Under Monitor tab, you can see all the monitors listed down in the Select View drop-down menu in the right-hand corner. There are eight different views:
| View Type | Description |
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| Bulk Configuration View | 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. |
| Category View | Lists the monitors according to the various categories like Applications Servers, Database Servers etc. |
| Business View | Provides a hierarchical view of the monitors present in different Monitor Groups. Use the zoom-in and zoom-out icons present on the right side of the page for optimal viewing. You can create multiple views for a Monitor Group by going to View Settings → Create New View. Enter details such as the Display Name, and Reload interval, and choose Monitors, Monitor Groups, and Sub Groups to create a custom view. Upon creating a view, you can choose to publish it by going to View Settings → Publish View. Additionally, the Edit View option can be used to modify the properties of the current view. Click on the Display Properties option to customize the appearance of a view. The customizable properties include:
Use the Reset View option to reset the properties of the current view. Note:
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| World Map View | Applications Manager, integrated with online map services, provides network traffic information at a geographical dimension. By using online map API features, Applications manager provides different levels of abstraction in the network data visualization. Refer to World Map View for further details. |
| Icon View | Lists all the monitors using icons, shows the host and the monitors assosciated with it symbolically |
| Table View | Lists the monitors within the host in a tabular format. |
| Plasma View | 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.The 'Customize View' option available in the top right hand corner, gives you the option to customize the layout. By checking the option “Play sound alarm for critical events”, you can get notified/ warned of the critical events by sound alarms. |
| Monitor Group View | Lists all Monitor Groups and the Sub-Groups available. You can associate Monitors, Copy Paste Monitor, configure alarms through this Monitor Group View itself (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. Includes an option supported to update the Hostname/IP. |
