Discover Applications

You can discover existing applications based on tags, ServiceNow, names, flows, and advanced properties, and add them into
VMware Aria Operations for Networks
.
  1. To discover existing applications in your environment:
      1. From the left navigation panel, go to
        Applications
        All Applications
        .
      2. Click the
        Discover
        button on the top-right corner of the page.
    • Or, from the left navigation panel, go to
      Applications
      Discover
      .
  2. You can discover applications in multiple ways. Select the preferred tab and perform the related steps.
    Tab
    Description
    Tags
    Use tag based application discovery if you have added tags for virtual machines in your
    VMware vCenter
    , Azure, AWS, or VMware
    NSX-T
    environments.
    ServiceNow
    Use ServiceNow based application discovery if you have mapped your applications in ServiceNow.
    Flows
    Use flow based application discovery if you want to discover applications by analyzing the traffic patterns and network flows in your environment.
    Flow based application discovery is automated and does not require any user input to start the discovery.
    Names
    Use name based application discovery if your VMs and Kubernetes services follow a logical naming pattern.
    Advanced
    Use advanced application discovery if you want to discover applications using a combination of VM names, NSX-V security tags, security groups, tags from
    VMware vCenter
    , Azure, AWS, or VMware
    NSX-T
    environments.
    The following limitations apply when discovering applications in
    VMware Aria Operations for Networks
    :
    Objects
    Maximum limit
    Impact if the limit exceeds
    Applications on the map view
    1000
    Applications are not displayed on the map view.
    Applications on the tabular view
    3000
    Only 3000 applications are displayed on the table view.
    Saved applications
    20k
    10k
    You cannot add a new application.
    Total tiers across applications
    60k
    30k
    You cannot add a new tier.
    Tiers per application
    150
    You cannot add a new tier.
    Members per tier
    5k
    You cannot add a new tier. You can only update the existing applications to reduce tiers and members.
    Members per application
    5k
    The application page does not show any useful information such as microsegmentation, metrics, and analytics.
    To gain complete visibility of the application, you must reduce the application members.
    Also,
    VMware Aria Operations for Networks
    raises the following alert:
    Application Membership limit exceeded
    .
    Flows per application
    500k
    The application topology does not load on the respective application page.