Viewing applications and resource details

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You can view a list of your applications or details about them (such as their constituent resource groups and resources) on the Resource management dashboard. From there, you can edit them or render them as topology views.

Before you begin

In order to view a list of applications, you must first have applications defined. For more information, see Defining and editing applications.

Procedure

  1. Open the Resource management dashboard from the Home page, or from the main navigation menu.
  2. View and manage defined applications, resource groups, or resources.
    From the Resource management dashboard, you can view key details about each application, view a list of favorite applications or set them as favorites, assign predefined business criticality values, and select to open an application page for each application to define, view, and manage the application.
    Search: You can search for a specific application, resource group or resource.
    Define application: This opens a new page to define an application from the available resource groups and resources.
    Assign criticality: This lets you assign a predefined business criticality to an application, resource group or resource.

    On the Resource management dashboard, applications, resource groups and resources are presented on separate tabs. In addition, the dashboard is divided into All application results and Favorites sections. You can display favorite applications and resource groups either as cards or in a table. Resources are always displayed in a table, and cannot be designated as favorites.

    Applications | resource groups
    Card view
    Summary cards display the name, icon, status, and tags for each of the applications or resource groups that you have designated as a favorite.
    For applications, you can click View topology to render a topology view, or use the overflow menu to deselect favorite status, edit or delete the application, or assign a predefined business criticality value.
    For resource groups, you can click View topology to render a topology view, or use the overflow menu to deselect favorite status or assign a predefined business criticality value.
    Table view
    For applications, the table columns display the name, icon, status, tags, business criticality, and number of resource groups for each of the applications. You can click the application name to render a topology view, use the heart icon to select it as a favorite, or use the overflow menu to edit or delete the application, or assign a business criticality.
    For resource groups, the table columns display the name, icon, type, status, tags, business criticality and number of resources for each of the resource groups. You can click the resource group name to render a topology view, select the heart icon to designate it as a favorite, or use the overflow menu to assign a business criticality.
    Resources
    The Resources tab lists the available resources in a table format.
    To include deleted resources, use the Include deleted resources toggle.
    Table columns display the name, icon, status, type, tags and business criticality for a resource. You can click the resource name to render a topology view, click More details to open the Resource details window, or click Assign criticality from the overflow menu to assign a predefined business criticality.

What to do next

From the Resource management dashboard, you can designate applications and resource groups as favorites, edit an application, view more details for a resource, or open topology views.

View resource details

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Procedure

  1. Open the Resource details page for a resource by clicking More details in the table.
  2. View the following information for a resource on the Resource details page:
    Resource details
    Properties tab: Displays a window that shows all the current stored properties for the specified resource in tabular and JSON format. If a property has been excluded from view by an administrator, it is only visible in JSON format.
    If opened from the Resource management dashboard, the resource name is an active link that opens a topology view of the resource in context.
    When selected while viewing a topology history with delta mode On, the Resource details window displays the properties of the resource at both the reference time and at the delta time.
    'Related applications' and 'Related resource groups' are only displayed when not in historical mode
    Toggle the Show JSON switch On or Off to display the properties in JSON format.
    Data origin tab: Displays the point of origin of the resource data, such as a specific observer job.
    If you have the appropriate user permission, such as the administrator role, the observer job name is an active link, which opens the observer job page from where you can re-run the job, view its history, or edit the job.
    Related applications tab: Displays all related applications as active links, which open the application topologies in new windows.
    Also lists the group type, number of groups, status, and tags.
    Related resource groups tab: Displays all related resource groups as active links, which open the resource group topologies in new windows.
    Also lists the resource type, number of resources, status, and tags.
    Resource status tab: Displays a dialog that shows the time-stamped statuses related to the specified resource in table format.
    The Severity and Time columns can be sorted, and the moment (that is, the historical time point) that Resource status was selected is also time-stamped.
    You can use the Show active only toggle to remove inactive statuses.
    In addition, if any status tools have been defined, the status tool selector (three dots) is displayed next to the resource's statuses. Click the status tool selector to display a list of any status tools that have been defined, and then click the specific tool to run it. Status tools are only displayed for the states that were specified when the tools were defined.
    The severity of a status ranges from 'clear' (white tick on a green square) to 'critical' (white cross on a red circle).
    Table 1. Severity levels
    Icon Severity
    clear icon clear
    indeterminate icon indeterminate
    information icon information
    warning icon warning
    minor icon minor
    major icon major
    critical icon critical
    Tip: If statuses related to a specific resource are available, the resource will be marked with an icon depicting the status severity level, and the Resource status tab will appear on the Resource details window, accessible via the resource context menu.
    Deleted resources: When viewing a deleted resource, display elements are grayed out and the deletion time stamp is provided. When viewing its topology, the display jumps to the last active time point.
  3. Click the resource name to display a topology view.
    The displayed topology shows you the resource and any connected resources as determined by hop count. You can use this interactive tool to drill into individual resource detail and status, enable timeline to view changes over time, and more. You can also use this view to triage issues. For more information, see Viewing topologies.