Glossary

A program with a well-defined task that runs in the background and that is used to capture information or do processing tasks.

Screens in Application Discovery that display a collection of data about various objects, often including system, application, and event data for all known instances of each in one table, but with emphasis on one aspect of the data.

A logically related set of processes active on a host system (a running application ) and/or a logically related set of files on a host system disk (an installed application).

Application Discovery recognizes applications based on standard package installation, templates that are shipped with the product, and templates that are defined by users.

HP Application Discovery. The HP VSE Management Software application that inventories running and installed applications in a network and provides application and process map data used for creating workloads in HP Virtualization Manager.

The process of finding applications and gathering performance and location data about them for display and use.

HP Capacity Advisor. The HP VSE Management Software application that performs analysis and planning of workloads on a system or across a set of systems.

Central management server. A system in the management domain that executes the HP Systems Insight Manager software. All central operations within HP Systems Insight Manager are initiated from this system.

In system management applications, the process of finding and identifying network objects. In HP Systems Insight Manager, discovery finds and identifies all the HP systems within a specified network. In Application Discovery, discovery finds and identifies all running and installed applications within a specified network.

As used by Application Discovery, this is a comparison of matched to unmatched processes running on a host. The ratio is the percentage of processes that can be matched to applications.

HP Global Workload Manager. The HP VSE Management Software application that allows you to centrally define resource-sharing policies that you can use across multiple HP servers. These policies increase system utilization and facilitate controlled sharing of system resources. gWLM's monitoring abilities provide both real-time and historical monitoring of the resource allocation.

The name of a system or partition that is running an OS instance.

The operating system that is running on the host machine.

HP Virtualization Manager. Provides hierarchical visualization of servers and workloads, with seamless access to the management tools of the VSE technologies.

HP Integrity Virtual Machines. A soft partitioning virtualization product that allows you to install and run multiple systems (virtual machines) on the same physical host system (Integrity server or nPartition). The Integrity server or nPartition acts as a VM Host for the virtual machines (also referred to as guests). The virtual machines share a single set of physical hardware resources, yet each virtual machine is a complete environment in itself and runs its own instance of an operating system (referred to as a guest OS).

A feature provided by HP Virtualization Manager, a logical server is a set of configuration and metadata that you create, activate, and assign to operate within a physical or virtual machine. An active logical server can be moved from one location to another, and its characteristics can be modified. This feature allows you to populate an enclosure, load balance servers, and evacuate servers in case of disaster; it allows you to provision resources only when needed and increase utilization of limited compute resources.

A workload that is managed by HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM).

A workload that can be monitored by HP Virtualization Manager but has no policy associated with it. Monitored workloads are not managed by HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM).

A partition in a cell-based server that consists of one or more cells, and one or more I/O chassis. Each nPartition operates independently of other nPartitions and either runs a single instance of an operating system or is further divided into virtual partitions.

nPartitions can be used as compartments managed by HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM) as long as several requirements are met. Refer to the gWLM online help for a description of nPartition requirements.

A package groups application services (individual HP-UX processes) together.

A workload that is not currently associated with a system. A workload becomes parked if its system is set to “none” when it is created or later modified. A parked workload that was previously associated with a system may have historical data associated with it from HP Capacity Advisor or HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM). As with any workload, the historical data will be lost if the workload is deleted.

When migrating a workload from one system to another, it may be useful to park the workload (removing the association with the original system) until the new system becomes available. This preserves the historical data for the workload across the migration.

A measure of the fractional amount of physical memory in use by a particular application for a period of time.

A collection of rules and settings that control workload resources managed by HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM). For example, a policy can indicate the minimum and maximum amount of CPU resources allowed for a workload, and a target to be achieved.

A single policy can be associated with multiple workloads.

A script residing in /etc/opt/vse/scripts that enables you to create output process IDs (PIDs).

When a file is reduced to a set number of lines based on criteria determined by the system (application) or the software user.

Application Discovery recognizes regular expressions constructed using Perl 5 or POSIX syntax and semantics.

An application that is continually or intermittently active and able to consume resources.

A monitored workload associated with a Serviceguard cluster and a particular Serviceguard package within the cluster. The workload (and the utilization data reported) follows the package it is associated with as it moves between the nodes of the cluster.

Secure Sockets Layer. Protocol for validating identity and for creating an encrypted connection between a server and a Web browser.

An HP-supplied or user-defined set of rules, properties, or metadata that describe an object in a computing network.

A process that Application Discovery can discover that does not match existing templates or packages that Application Discovery is using for discovery and monitoring. Unmatched processes might include custom and third-party applications.

A software entity provided by HP Integrity Virtual Machines, VMware ESX, or Microsoft Virtual Server. This technology allows a single server or (with Integrity Virtual machines) nPartition to act as a VM Host for multiple individual virtual machines, each running its own instance of an operating system (referred to as a guest OS). Virtual machines are managed systems in the HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE).

A software partition of a server, or of a single nPartition, where each virtual partition can run its own instance of an operating system. A virtual partition cannot span an nPartition boundary.

Application Discovery makes it possible for you to control the amount of data appearing on user interface screens by letting you determine what applications, packages, or hosts will be visible in the user interface or not. Currently, visibility settings are global in nature, which means they apply to all screens in Application Discovery and are not specific to a particular user or job role.

A server running software such as HP Integrity Virtual Machines, VMware ESX, or Microsoft Virtual Server, that provides multiple virtual machines, each running its own instance of an operating system.

The period of time during which Application Discovery is comparing discovered processes to the known installations of software and to template definitions of applications.

Web-Based Enterprise Management. A set of web-based information services standards developed by the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. A WBEM provider offers access to a resource. WBEM clients send requests to providers to get information about and access to the registered resources.

The collection of processes in a standalone server, nPartition compartment, virtual partition compartment, or virtual machine compartment. HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM) extends this concept to include processor set compartments and Fair-Share Scheduler group compartments. gWLM enables you to monitor and manage workloads by automatically adjusting the resource allocations of compartments based on policies.