VMware Aria Operations for Networks 6.14

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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

  1. On the
    Discover Applications
     page, in the
    Scope
     bar of the
    Flows
     tab, click
    Edit Discovery
    .
  2. In the
    Edit Discovery
     window, click
    Application and Tier Naming
    .
  3. 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 Networks
     renames your applications based on the preferences and the order you select. You can see how your selection changes the application names in the
    Tip
     section.
  4. If you are naming your applications and tiers based on VM names, you can also use regular expressions. You can select the
    Regex
     option in the
    Status
     column of
    VM Names
    , and in the
    Application Naming
     and
    Tier Naming
     sections, do one of the following:
    • Select
      Regex
       and provide a regular expression using which you want to name your applications and tiers.
    • Click
      Pattern Builder
      , select a sample VM to identify the pattern, choose the position of characters or groups to create the pattern, and click
      Submit
      .
  5. When you select the
    Upload CSV
     option, the names of VMs, applications, and tiers are taken from the CSV file that was uploaded while discovering applications based on flows.
  6. Click
    SUBMIT
    .
If applications or tiers do not match your selected naming preference, then the system renames applications or tiers based on the VM names.

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