Attribute Fields and Their Descriptions

The following figure shows the Attributes portion of an application template. Fields and their descriptions follow the image.

Field Description

Is visible?

By default during initial discovery, Application Discovery sets objects recognized as packages to "no" and objects recognized as templates to "yes".

This field designates whether or not the application shall be visible to users of the Application Discovery user interface:




	NOTE: Visibility actually has no affect on template matching, but is included here as a convenience. It is a global setting that allows you to control data presentation in all Application Discovery screens. It is not stored as a user preference.

Pid scope

How many process identifiers (pids) are allowed in an application:

one — one pid per running application.
Effect: Each new concurrent run of this application is shown as a separate instance from the others in Application Discovery.
session – any number of pids per application for the duration of one terminal group session.
Effect: All associated pids are treated as one running application instance for that session. However, because sessions on HP-UX and Linux are maintained per user, this has the effect of delineating running applications per user. Thus, if you log in twice (two concurrent terminal windows), you can have two separate instances of this running application. This effect is similar to that obtained by setting user scope=one.
any – any number of pids per application.
Effect: Pids have no specific effect on defining the application described by this template.

User scope

How many users' processes can be associated with one instance of this application:

one – one user's processes per application.
Effect: A separate instance of this application will be shown for each different user who runs this application. This effect is similar to that obtained by setting pid scope=session.
any – any number of different users per application.
Effect: Number of users has no specific limiting effect on defining the application described by this template. That is, only one instance is recognized, regardless of how many users are running the application concurrently.

is pidtree

Shall child processes spawned by the parent be considered part of the parent application instance or as a separate instance:

no – child processes are not considered part of the parent application instance. This is the default value.
Effect: Child processes will be shown as separate application instances in Application Discovery.
yes – child processes are considered part of the parent application instance.
Effect: Child processes will not be shown as separate application instances in Application Discovery.

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