Understanding applications

An application is made up of one or more programs running on one or more monitored systems. Applications can be one of three types:

For example, if you want to use APM to monitor WhatsUp Gold, create an application instance of WhatsUp Gold and add applications that WhatsUp Gold uses, such as SQL Server and IIS as components to the application instance.

Note: Each application component (SQL Server and IIS) uses one license each since they are each individual components of an application instance (in this example, WhatsUp Gold).

ComplexandDiscreetApps

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See Also

APM configuration

Viewing application performance configuration

Configuring APM to monitor applications

Working with application profiles

Working with components

Working with application instances

Working with critical component groups

Working with discrete applications