Set up Application and Tier Naming
Preference
When you are performing flow-based application discovery,
VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
provides options to set up the naming preference
and allows you to choose the order of naming your applications and tiers. Setting up naming
preferences helps you create logical and meaningful names for your applications and
tiers.By default,
VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
names
applications and tiers based on the names of the VMs that are part of applications and
tiers. If the VM names are not logical or meaningful, then applications and tier names
do not help you to find the actual applications or tiers.Therefore, when you perform flow-based
application discovery, you can set the naming preference for your applications and
tiers. You can also activate or deactive naming preferences, and choose the order of
naming the applications and tiers.
VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
automatically renames the existing applications and tiers, and
names the newly discovered applications and tiers, as per your set naming preference and
order.Procedure
- On theDiscover Applicationspage, in theScopebar of theFlowstab, clickEdit Discovery.
- In theEdit Discoverywindow, clickApplication and Tier Naming.
- Select the naming preference you want to add.You can select one or more of the following naming preferences and arrange them in the order they must be considered:
- Upload CSV
- Security tags
- Security groups
- Load balancer
- VM names
- VM tags
To arrange the order of the naming preferences, you must use the drag icon.VMware Aria Operations for Networksrenames your applications based on the preferences and the order you select. You can see how your selection changes the application names in theTipsection. - If you are naming your applications and tiers based on VM names, you can also use regular expressions. You can select theRegexoption in theStatuscolumn ofVM Names, and in theApplication NamingandTier Namingsections, do one of the following:
- SelectRegexand provide a regular expression using which you want to name your applications and tiers.
- ClickPattern Builder, select a sample VM to identify the pattern, choose the position of characters or groups to create the pattern, and clickSubmit.
- When you select theUpload CSVoption, the names of VMs, applications, and tiers are taken from the CSV file that was uploaded while discovering applications based on flows.
- ClickSUBMIT.
If applications or tiers do not match
your selected naming preference, then the system renames applications or tiers based
on the VM names.