Starting and Stopping Monitoring on Applications

You can monitor selected sources and applications for a few days or weeks to understand application dependencies and use patterns.

To Start Monitoring an Application

  1. Click Manage>Sources. The Source Inventory windows displays.

  2. Select an active source. The Source Details window displays.

  3. Click the Applications icon in the Source Details window. The Applications view of the Source Details window displays a list of discovered applications for the selected source.

  4. Click the more actions icon for an application and select Monitor, or select an application in the list and click the Monitor icon on the top right. A Monitored Application icon now displays in the Source details window. The Status column in the Applications view now displays Monitoring for the selected application.

To Stop Monitoring an Application

  1. Click Manage>Sources. The Source Inventory windows displays.

  2. Select an active source. The Source Details window displays.

  3. Click the Applications icon in the Source Details window. The Applications view of the Source Details window displays a list of discovered applications for the selected source.

  4. Click the more actions icon for a monitored application and select Stop Monitoring, or click the Stop Monitoring icon. The Status column in the Applications view now displays Discovered for the selected application.

 

The following table describes the information listed on the Application Usage view of the Source Details window.

Item

Description

Application

The name of the application.

Install Date

The date that the application was installed on the source.

Estimated Size

The estimated size of the application in MB.

CPU

The CPU utilization of the application, in percentage.

Memory

The memory use of the application.

Disk

The disk use of the application.

Network

The network use of the monitored application.

Status

The status of the application: can be Discovered or Monitoring.

Opens a menu of actions that you can perform on the application:

  • Monitor