Application models

You create applications to monitor the capacity and performance of the storage resources that your critical applications use in one place.

To create applications, you associate storage resources with the applications that your organization uses.

Applications comprise three elements:

The application.
The subcomponents of the application, which is optional.
The filters that associate storage resources with the applications or subcomponents.

The application hierarchy determines the information that is shown about the capacity and performance of the storage resources.

For example, you can create an application with a filter that associates the application with all of the storage resources that it uses.

Shows a Books Sales database application with three subcomponents that are mapped to storage resources.

Alternatively, you can create an application hierarchy that comprises a container application and its application subcomponents. You can view the capacity, space usage, and performance of all of the storage resources that are associated with the application, which includes the application subcomponents, at the application level. You can also view the capacity, space usage, and performance of the resources that are associated with each of the subcomponents at the application subcomponent level.

When you create an application hierarchy, it is not necessary to associate storage resources with the application because the application inherits the storage resources that are associated with its subcomponents. However, if you want to monitor storage resources that are not associated with the subcomponents, you must associate the additional storage resources that you want to monitor with the application.

When you create applications, you can also organize and provide more information about your applications. For example, you can categorize your database applications:

By the database vendor such as IBM®
By the database environment such as production, preproduction, or test

You specify the categories that you want to use in the Type and Subtype fields when you create the applications.

Tip: To add categories after you create the application, go to Resources > Applications. Right-click the application, click View Properties, and then click Edit.

You can also create an application that maps the application to the departments in your organization. If you want to monitor the storage usage of a particular department, you associate the application with the department that you create. This allows you to monitor storage usage and performance at the application level and at the department level.