The Application Discovery Observer job retrieves network topology data, including
discovered applications, their components, configurations and dependencies, from the Application
Discovery database via REST API, and uses this data to create topologies within the Agile Service
Manager topology service.
The Application Discovery services are installed as part of the core installation procedure. This
includes the Application Discovery Observer, Application Discovery engines and Db2 docker
containers, which have been installed and should be running.
Before you configure an application discovery job, you must configure the discovery details. This
procedure is described here: Configuring application discovery service
When successful, the configuration details will be saved in topology management artifacts.
The Application Discovery Observer job retrieves topology data from the Application Discovery
database via REST API. The observer loads and updates the resources and their relationships within
the Netcool Agile Service Manager core topology service.
You define and start the following job.
- Load job
- By default, these jobs are one-off, transient jobs that perform a
full upload of all requested topology data as soon as they are triggered.
- You can also run these jobs (again) manually from the Observer
UI, or schedule them to run at set times when configuring them.
Note: You can only run one job per profile.
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On the Observer jobs page, perform one of the following actions:
- To edit an existing job
- Open the List of options overflow menu next to the job and click
View & edit.
- To create a new job
- Click Add a new job + and select the AppDisco Observer tile.
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Enter or edit the following parameters, then click Save to save your job
and begin retrieving information.
Table 1. Application Discovery
Observer Load job parameters
Parameter |
Action |
Details |
Unique ID |
Enter a unique name for the job |
Required |
Profile ID for common configuration schema |
Specify the Application Discovery configuration ID |
Required |
Flag to trigger AppDisco discovery |
Set to 'true' to trigger both AppDisco and AppDisco observer discovery, and 'false' to
trigger AppDisco observer discovery only. |
Required |
Date |
Extend the result set returned to Agile Service Manager based on the date given. Set to empty
for snapshot discovery. |
Optional. Date must be in dd-mm-yyyy HH:mm:ss format |
Job schedule |
Specify when the job should run, and whether it should run at regular intervals.
By default the job runs immediately, and only once.
Optionally you can specify a future date and time for the job to run, and then set it to
run at regular intervals after that.
|
Optional. Transient (one-off) jobs only.
If you set a job schedule, the run intervals must be at least 90 seconds apart, and if you set
them at less than 15 minutes, a warning is displayed, as the frequency can impact system
performance.
|
Observer job description |
Enter additional information to describe the job. |
Optional |
The Application Discovery Observer job discovers and then uploads the
application services data to the Agile Service Manager topology service.