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
.- To discover existing applications in your environment, from the left navigation panel, click
- You can discover applications in multiple ways. Select the preferred tab and perform the related steps.TabDescriptionFlowsUse 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.To learn more, see Discover Applications using Flows.VM AttributesUse VM Attributes based application discovery if your VMs follow a logical naming pattern, or if you have added tags for virtual machines in yourVMware vCenter, Azure, AWS, or VMwareNSXenvironments, or if you want to discover applications using a combination of VM names, NSX-V security tags, security groups, tags fromVMware vCenter, Azure, AWS, or VMwareNSXenvironments.To learn more, see Discover Applications using Names.ServiceNowUse ServiceNow based application discovery if you have mapped your applications in ServiceNow.To learn more, see Discover Applications using ServiceNow.Add ManuallyUse add manually to create an application manually by adding tiers and members.To learn more, see Create an Application Manually.The following limitations apply when discovering applications inVMware Aria Operations for Networks:ObjectsMaximum limitImpact if the limit exceedsApplications on the map view1000Applications are not displayed on the map view.Applications on the tabular view3000Only 3000 applications are displayed on the table view.Saved applications20k10kYou cannot add a new application.Total tiers across applications60k30kYou cannot add a new tier.Tiers per application150You cannot add a new tier.Members per tier5kYou cannot add a new tier. You can only update the existing applications to reduce tiers and members.Members per application5kThe 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 Networksraises the following alert:Application Membership limit exceeded.Flows per application500kThe application topology does not load on the respective application page.