Managing discrete applications

A discrete application is an application upon which a complex application has a dependency. For example, IIS and SQL Server are discrete applications on which the complex application WhatsUp Gold is dependent. A discrete application is used when you are monitoring a complex application. You may add a discrete application to an application profile or add a discrete application to an application instance as a component. Learn more about APM terminology.

Note: Adding a discrete application to an application profile helps build the foundation of the profile, but does not add the discrete application to an application instance.

See Also Working with existing application profiles Managing application instances Managing application components Managing critical component groups