EMC OL-8950-01 Manuel D’Utilisation

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Introduction
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EMC Smarts Application Connectivity Monitor Configuration Guide
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Conceptually, applications have characteristics or attributes that uniquely 
differentiate one application from another; together, these characteristics 
constitute a signature for a given application. Using the mechanism of 
Application signatures, we can then further qualify an application to 
reference particular instances of that application. Application Connectivity 
Monitor uses signatures to discover and classify software applications in the 
managed infrastructure. Application Connectivity Monitor includes many 
predefined signatures.
Application signatures are selected, configured, and enabled through the 
Application Signature Configuration Interface. Their configuration includes 
the name of the signature, port number, expected request and response, 
application class, and an application prefix. System matching criteria can 
be specified to limit discovery.
Once predefined signatures are configured and enabled, they are 
automatically registered with Application Connectivity Monitor. At the same 
time, the signatures are combined with a standard probe, which is set to 
“Autodetect,” that automatically discovers the specified applications. The 
discovery of the applications is initiated during the next discovery period, or 
when a new system is added to the Application Connectivity Monitor 
topology.
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Monitoring actions are scripts or programs that are associated with 
application signatures. The actions monitor the availability of applications.
Application Connectivity Monitor includes a Standard tcpAction monitoring 
action that, unless otherwise specified, is used by all application signatures. 
It automatically monitors application availability by attempting to establish 
TCP sessions with each managed application. Too, there is an option, with 
the request/response strings, to provide greater application availability 
checking.
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