Understanding Application Templates

HP Application Discovery is shipped with a set of default application templates that it uses to discover applications that are likely to be present within an extensive network or data center. These templates can be copied and edited to quickly create a new, similar templates, or you can create a completely new template that contains no predetermined settings.

Application template storage. Template attributes are stored in the form of an XML document. This means that each attribute is encapsulated in XML tags that must be valid in their structure. HP Application Discovery provides a template editor to help you build valid XML template documents.

Application template recognition. HP Application Discovery recognizes the uniqueness of a template based on its name and its version, and informs you when you try to use a name and version combination that is already in use by another application template.

Application template precedence. On HP-UX, HP Application Discovery looks for templates stored in the /var/opt/amgr/templates/local directory before applying the standard templates supplied with HP Application Discovery. Application templates found in the local directory have precedence over templates supplied with the product.

	On HP-UX: Supplied templates are stored in /var/opt/amgr/templates/amgr/ to make it easier to update templates with new releases of HP Application Discovery. New application templates provided by HP can replace templates in this directory. Copies of these templates, which are stored in /var/opt/amgr/templates/local/, are unaffected by release updates to the software. Templates are stored in the VSE install directory (C:\Program Files\HP\Virtual Server Environment\data\templates\). For information on where HP VSE is installed by default, see HP Insight Control Management Quick Setup Poster.