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Chapter 6 Application Patterns

Application Discovery Process

Figure 6‐7showsahigh‐leveloverviewoftheprocesstocreateapplicationpatternsandviewtheresultsinthe

ADMconsole.Thecalloutscorrespondtothe“UseCase:CreatingDefinitionsandViewingtheResulting

Instances”onpage 61.

Figure 6-7. Overview of the Application Discovery Process

Use Case: Creating Definitions and Viewing the Resulting Instances

Thisusecaseprovidesanoverviewonhowtocreateanapplicationpatterndefinitionandviewtheresulting

instances.TheVMwar evCenterApplicationDiscoveryManagerOnlineHelpdescribesthefieldsinthedisplay.

Step 1: Create an application pattern definition

To create an application pattern definition

1 NavigatetoManage>ApplicationPatternDefinitions.

2ClickAddApplicationPatternfromtheActionspaneontheleftsideofthescreen.

3 CreatethenoderulesforeachendpointoftheapplicationpatternfromtheNodeRulestab.

4UsetheConnectivityRulestabtodefinethetypeofconnectionstoincludeintheinstanceandtodefine

thenodesasasourceortargetoftheapplicationpatterninstance.

XML file

ADM

database

ADM

database

ADM

User creates an

application pattern definition

using ADM’s UI.

ADM discovers all

instances that match

the definition.

The chosen instances

are stored in the

database as groups.

All discovered

instances are listed

to the user.

ADM

database

ADM

New instances are

discovered and existing

instances are refreshed

and validated nightly.

The definition can

be exported to

(or imported from)

an XML file.

IMPORTANTAtleastonenoderuleismandatory.

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