Creating the application for the capacity report

In this scenario, you create the application that you want to use to generate the custom report.

1. From the Groups menu, click Applications.
2. Click Create Application.
3. Complete these actions:
   • Enter the name.
   • Add a description.
   • Enter the type. For example, to distinguish this application from the other types of application that you create, enter DB or the type of DB, such as db2.
   • Enter the subtype. For example, you can enter preproduction, test, or, production to categorize applications by environment.
4. Click Assign storage resources to the application, and then click A selection of volumes that match a a pattern.
5. In this scenario, you enter an asterisk * as the name pattern for the volumes, then you click Belonging to, and add a name pattern that matches the names of the pools that contain the volumes.
   Assigning resources: Enter name patterns instead of adding comma-separated lists of the resources that an application uses. When you add more storage resources that match the name pattern, they are dynamically added to the application.
6. Click Preview to check that you added the storage resources that the application consumes, and then click Save.