The Resource management page

You can view your applications (services) and details about them, such as their constituent resource groups and resources, on the Resource management page. If you have many applications, resource groups or resources in your topology database, you can use sophisticated searches or define search filters to find them.

Lists of applications, resource groups and resources are displayed on separate tabs.

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About resource management

Remember: You can configure the UI to label your groups-of-groups collection of resources as either 'applications' or 'services'. For more information, see the following tip on changing terminology.

Before you begin

In order to view applications and their constituent elements, you must have obtained resource data, created resource groups, and defined applications, as documented in the following sections:

About resource management

After you log into IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps console, you open the Resource management page from the main navigation menu.

Lists of applications, resource groups and resources are displayed on separate tabs. applications and resource groups are divided into 'All results' and 'Favorites' sections. You can display your favorite applications and resource groups either as cards or in a table; however, resources are always displayed in a table, and cannot be designated as favorites.

If many applications, resource groups or resources are listed, you can use the 'search' or 'filter' functions to identify specific ones, which you can then edit or view as topologies. For instance, you can define filter conditions to display the resources that have a specific tag applied to them. For more information on searching, see Resource management: Searching and filtering.

From here, you can define new applications, view your data at a historical point in time, and access the topology configuration, user preferences and template builder functionalities.

If the status for an application, resource group or resource is available, an icon that depicts the status severity level and the number of events that caused the severity are displayed. The severity of a status ranges from clear (white tick on a green square) to critical (white cross on a red circle).

Severity status icons
Icon	Severity
	clear
	indeterminate
	information
	warning
	minor
	major
	critical

The Applications tab

The applications tab lists the name, icon, status, tags, business criticality, and number of resource groups for each of the applications in the 'All applications' table. You can define new applications or edit or delete existing ones, assign them a business criticality, add estimated costs for application disruptions, assign favorites, or display them either as a topology or in a tabular format.

For information about defining new applications, see Defining and editing applications.

Application details displayed:

The overall status of the application.
The application creation date
The last updated date
The included resource groups or resources
Any associated tags
Any business criticality set
Any associated incidents

An incident is a collection of insights that comes from different data sources such as logs, events, and alerts. Incidents represent the determination of an incident and are categorized by priority from 1 (high) to 5 (low). They build understanding and help drive remediation.

For more information, see Incidents.
A link to the More details tearsheet (page).

You can also access more details from the overflow menu to display a sidebar that shows all the current stored properties and values for the specified application in tabular and JSON format. In addition to the Properties tab, the More details page also contains Related resources and Related resource groups tabs.
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**Tip:** If a property has been excluded from view by an administrator, it is removed from the tabular view, but remains visible in JSON format.
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A heart icon (Add favorite) to add the item to the favorites section. When selected as a favorite, the tooltip for the icon changes to Remove favorite.
Click the application name to open a topology view of the application.

The topology shows you all the resources that make up your business application and how the resources are connected. 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 when an issue occurs.

For more information, see Managing topologies.

Note When viewing an application as a topology, you can click View Legend to open a Help panel that describes the visual elements, such as symbols, icons and line styles, that are used in the rendering of the topology. You can also click the Tabular view button to switch from a topology view to a table view.
Click Choose a historical time on the toolbar to view applications at a historical point in the past (the default selection is Show current data.)

Choose a specific date and time in the past, and click Apply.

The Resource groups tab

The Resource groups tab lists the name, icon, type, status, tags, business criticality and number of resources for each of the resource groups in the All resource groups table. You can add resource groups to applications, assign them a business criticality, assign them as favorites, or view them either as a topology or in tabular format; however, you cannot create resource groups from here.

For information about using templates to create and manage resource groups, see the template topics.

Resource group details displayed:

The overall status of the resource group
The creation date
The last updated date
The included resources
Any associated tags
Any business criticality set
Any associated incidents

An incident is a collection of insights that comes from different data sources such as logs, events, and alerts. Incidents represent the determination of an incident and are categorized by priority from 1 (high) to 5 (low). They build understanding and help drive remediation.

For more information, see Incidents.
A heart icon (Add favorite) to add the item to the favorites section. When selected as a favorite, the tooltip for the icon changes to Remove favorite.
A link to the More details tearsheet (page).

You can also access More details from the overflow menu to display a page that shows all the current stored properties and values for the specified resource group in tabular and JSON format. In addition to the Properties tab, the More details page also contains Related resources and Related applications tabs.
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**Tip:** If a property has been excluded from view by an administrator, it is removed from the tabular view, but remains visible in JSON format.
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Click the resource group name to open a topology view of the resource group.

The topology shows you all the resources that make up your resource group and how the resources are connected. You can use this interactive tool to drill into individual resource detail and status, enable timeline to view changes over time, and more.

For more information, see Managing topologies.

Note When viewing a resource groups as a topology, you can click View Legend to open a Help panel that describes the visual elements, such as symbols, icons and line styles, that are used in the rendering of the topology. You can also click the Tabular view button to switch from a topology view to a table view.
Click Choose a historical time on the toolbar to view resource groups at a historical point in the past (the default selection is Show current data.)

Choose a specific date and time in the past, and click Apply.

The Resources tab

The Resources tab of the Resource management page lists all available resources by name, icon, status, type, tags and business criticality in the 'All resources' table. You can view them as topologies, assign them a predefined business criticality, compare resource details, or open the Resource details window to display all resource information.

Optionally, you can list deleted resources.

Resource details displayed:

The overall status of the resource
The creation date
The last updated date
Any associated tags
Any business criticality set
A link to a resource map (if defined)
A link to More details. You can also access more details from the overflow menu to display a sidebar that shows all the current stored properties and values for the specified resource in tabular and JSON format. The details also indicate the data origin, such as observer and observer job name, status, related and neighbor resources and relationships, and location (if defined).

Tip: If a property has been excluded from view by an administrator, it is removed from the tabular view, but remains visible in JSON format.
Click Compare resources on the overflow menu to open the Compare resources dialog. From here, you can search for and select a second resource to compare properties in table format.
Click a resource name to display it as a topology view.

From this view, you can drill into individual resource detail and status, enable the historical timeline to view changes over time, and more.

For more information, see Managing topologies.

Note When viewing a resource as a topology, you can click View Legend to open a Help panel that describes the visual elements, such as symbols, icons and line styles, that are used in the rendering of the topology. You can also click the Tabular view button to switch from a topology view to a table view.
Click Choose a historical time on the toolbar to view resources at a historical point in the past (the default selection is Show current data.)

Choose a specific date and time in the past, and click Apply.