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Viewing Application Inventory

Topics marked with * relate to HQ Enterprise-only features.

This inventory screen allows users to view and manage a selected application. The screen displays an application's user-specified properties, the services included in the application, and groups containing the application. The application's name is at the rightmost of the path listed at the top of the screen.

Not all screen elements described in this wiki page are available for all instances of an application. Some application types simply have more or fewer data elements associated with them.

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Tasks Available on This Screen

On this screen, users can do (or at least start) the following tasks:

To view a map representation of the application's relationship to its component resources:

  • Click in the upper left.
    The application is displayed at the top, and below are all the services in the application. All resource names are bolded and the resource type is displayed just below in smaller type. From there you can navigate to any of the application's component resources by clicking its name. The map can sometimes display auto groups, marked by a three-square icon.

You'll notice that the auto-groups have a tri-square icon next to them.

To change the application's owner:

  • In the middle near the top of the screen, click Change next to the listed owner and proceed to the "Edit" screen.

To change the application's name and description:

  • In the "General Properties" section, click the top and proceed to the "Edit" screen.

To add this application to the user's Dashboard favorites:

  • In the Tools Menu in the upper right, select Add to My Dashboard Favorites.
    • In HQ Enterprise 4.2 and later, if you have edit permissions for multiple dashboards, the Tools menu will instead have an Add to Dashboard Favorites option.  Select the option to view a list of dashboards for which you have edit permissions.  You can select one or more dashboards, and click Add to add the resource to the favorites portlet of each.

To add a service to this application:

  • In "Services," click and proceed to the "Add Server to Application" screen.

To remove a service from this application:

  • In "Services," check the service and click .

To view a service's dependencies:

  • In "Services," click next to the service and proceed to the "Configuring Application Service Dependencies" screen.

To add this application to a group:

  • In "Groups containing this resource," click and proceed to the "Add to Groups" screen.

To remove this application from a group:

  • In "Groups containing this resource," check the group and click .

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Sections on This Screen

Top Level

The top of the page displays high-level identifying information for the application being viewed. The data fields displayed here depend on the application type.

General Properties

This section lists the properties the user specified when creating or last modifying the application:

  • Description: A description of the application
  • Location: The physical location of the application hardware
  • Resource type: The application type
  • Date Created: The date the application was added to the HQ inventory
  • Date Modified, Modified By: The date the application properties were last modified and the user who modified them

Application Properties

This section lists the application type and contact and personnel-responsibility information for the application. IT administrators should assign responsibility for this application according to their own IT and business practices.

Service Counts

This section summarizes the services included in this application.

  • Total Services: The total number of service instances in this application
  • Total By Type: The total number of distinct service types included in this application (a categorization of the Total Services)

Services

This section lists the services included in this application. Because application are user creations (and not created through auto-discovery, as most other resources are), users can manually change the list of resources in an application. To view a service listed here, click the service's name.

  • Dependencies: Indicates whether this service depends on another service to be useful or available or working. Dependencies are user-defined. A general example is that a web server could depend on a database server to function.
  • Services: The service's name
  • EntryPoint:
  • Service Type: The type of service
  • ResType:
  • Host Server: The server that hosts this service
  • Availability: The service's availability

Groups Containing This Resource

This section lists the groups of which this application is a member. To view a group listed here, click the group's name.

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Navigating via the Masthead Menu

Main screens in Hyperic contain a masthead menu. Users can navigate to the following parts of HQ using this menu:

Dashboard Displays the Dashboard, the starting screen in HQ, which displays information about resource health, recent alerts, recently performed auto-discovery scan, and control actions
Resources Click the menu name to access either Browse (takes users to the Browse Resources screen, where they can locate and navigate through information about all managed resources), Currently Down (takes users to the Currently Down screen, where they can look at all managed resources that are unavailable), Nagios Availability (available only when Nagios is installed), or Recently Viewed (provides a drop-down list of resources that the user has recently viewed. Selecting one of those resources takes the user to the Current Health screen for the resource).
Analyze Click the menu name to access Reporting * (presents the Reporting screen, from which reports can be generated), Alert Center (presents the Alert Center, which displays a deployment wide alert summary), or Event Center (presents the Event Center, which displays a deployment-wide event summary).
Administration Takes users (with "Administer Hyperic HQ Server Configuration" permissions) to the Administration screen, where they can manage the system-wide settings
Search
The Search box in the upper right of the Masthead allows you to search for HQ resources of any type and HQ users.

Search results appear after four characters are entered in the text box. Results will include the first 10 platforms, servers, services, and groups whose name includes the search string.

Double-click a resource in the list to navigate to its Resource page.

The masthead also displays the two most recently triggered alerts. Users can click the alert's time to be taken to the alert detail.

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Next Steps
Related Information

View resources of other inventory levels: services, groups, servers, and platforms.

Return to HQ User Interface Reference.

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