Working with application states

Applications within WhatsUp Gold can have the following states:

• Up (Green). The Up state indicates that all of the monitored components, critical component groups and applications that are defined in the application instance are up.
• Down (Red). The Down state indicates that one or more of an application's critical components, component groups or applications has exceeded its down threshold.
• Warning (Yellow). The Warning state indicates that one or more non-critical component or application has entered the down state.
• Unknown (Gray). The Unknown state indicates that the state of the component or application cannot be determined.
• Maintenance (Blue). The Maintenance state indicates that one or more component or application has been placed into a Maintenance state.

Components marked as critical cause the application to go into a Down state if the component is out of threshold. Non-critical components cause the application to go into a Warning state, unless all components are down, in which case the application goes into the Down state. For more information about how APM component states affect the APM instance state, see Learning about APM component's instance state precedence.

Note: Groups are always evaluated as critical.

The following thresholds are monitored on an application level:

• CPU Utilization
• Database Query
• Disk Utilization
• Memory Utilization
• Network Port Check
• Process Check
• Script Execution
• SNMP
• SSH Command
• Windows Service Check
• WMI

See Also APM actions Working with action policies in APM Creating an action policy in APM Managing Action Policies Assigning an action policy to an APM instance or component Working with actions in APM Working with blackout policies in APM