Using Applications to Manage Your Infrastructure

FUSE HQ uses the term "application" to describe a collection of services that together fulfill a single business purpose. This concept reflects the idea that an application, from the business point of view, comprises many different pieces, and those pieces are usually distributed across different platforms and provided by different servers. Thus you can manage your infrastructure from an application — as opposed to a hardware — point of view.

• Creating an application
• Monitoring an application with indicator charts

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Creating an Application

To create an application:

1. Click Browse Resources in the masthead.
2. Click New Application in the Tools Menu in the upper right-hand corner
3. Provide high-level application information on the "New Application" screen.
4. Add services to the application.
   1. On the "Application Inventory" screen, in the "Services" section, click .
   2. On the ensuing "Add Service to Application" screen, select services to add to the application. This screen lists all services that HQ has discovered.
      The newly added services are now listed in the "Services" section on the "Application Inventory" screen.

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Monitoring an Application with Indicator Charts

After you have created an application and added services to it, you can start monitoring all the application's components as a whole using indicator charts.

Initially, the tab ("Current Health" screen) displays only the availability metric indicator for the new application. Not to worry. The services you added are listed, along with "Host Servers" (the servers that host the listed services), on the tab at screen left, and through those you can add more metrics to the display.

To add indicator charts to the application:

1. Check application services or host servers and click View Metrics to view a list of available metrics for the checked resources (displayed below in the same panel).
2. From this list, click next to a metric to add it as an indicator metric for the application.
   The indicator chart appears at screen right in the tab.
3. Save this view of metric charts. Either:
   • Create a new of view that includes these newly added charts. In View in the upper right, select "Create New View," type a Name for the new view, and click .
   • Update the default view to include them. In View in the upper right, select "Update Default" and click .
     

     The Importance of Views It is common to create several "views" on the tab so that different comparisons can be made between metrics under various circumstances. ("Views" are available and important for other inventory levels, too.) Be sure to save the view of the metric charts you have added.

     
     

     Related Topics Learn more about applications Charting metric data Managing metric data

     Associated UI Pages Add services to an application View or modify an application

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