Application Patterns; Changes - VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1.1 User Manual

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Application Patterns

ADM discovers business applications by creating application patterns. An application pattern definition
consists of set of rules that describe the requested pattern. The two set of rules are node rules and connectivity
rules.
ADM analyzes the application pattern definition and discovers instances of the application pattern. Node
rules are group‐like rules that describe the instances in the topology graph. Connectivity rules describe the
edges in the topology graph (that is, the connectivity between two instances).
The VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager Online Help contains task‐based information on application
patterns.
I The admin user can create application patterns from the Manage tab, or a VMware Professional
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patterns.

Changes

ADM allows you to create policies that help you track application behavior and alerts you when changes occur
in your environment. These changes might be demand changes, such as a higher number of transactions for a
service, or behavior changes such as new clients accessing a service or new services added into the application
environment.
A change tracking policy is a rule that governs what happens when a specified change occurs among the
discovered items in a group. A group can have multiple policies defined for it. Change tracking policies run
only after the system is in the monitoring stage, after completing discovery.
Change policies are displayed in the Change Tracking Policies List. To access this list, navigate to Manage >
Changes. Table 3‐1 lists and describes the information in the Change Tracking Policies List.
Table 3-1. Change Tracking Policies List
Column
Active
Name
Description
Created By
Creation Date
Updated By
Update Date
Click on the top of the column to sort the list by that column.
To view changes in the environment, navigate to Change Tracking > Changes. The changes that are defined
in the Manage > Changes tab are actually displayed in the Change Tracking > Changes tab.
Changes are also displayed in the Dashboard > Changes pane.
You can perform the following actions that are accessed from the Actions menu on the left side of the screen:
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Add Policy: Creates a new change tracking policy.
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Copy Policy: Makes a copy of an existing change tracking policy.

Edit Policy: Modifies an existing change tracking policy.
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Delete Policy: Removes a change tracking policy.
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Description
This box has a green flag for an active policy and a grey flag for an inactive policy. An active
policy generates change notifications.
Name assigned to the change tracking policy when you created it.
Change tracking policy description.
User name of the person who created this change tracking policy.
Date this change tracking policy was originally created on the ADM appliance where this
change tracking policy is defined.
User name of the person who last modified this change tracking policy.
Date this policy was last modified. The date is for the ADM appliance where this policy is
defined.
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