Managing Application
Groups
An application is a container construct
that represents a collection of interdependent hardware and software components that deliver a
specific capability to support your business.
VMware Aria
Operations
builds an application to determine how your environment is affected when
one or more components in an application experiences problems, and to monitor the overall health
and performance of the application. Object membership in an application is not dynamic. To
change the application, you manually modify the objects in the container. Reasons to Use
Applications
VMware Aria
Operations
collects data from components in the application and displays the
results in a summary dashboard for each application with a real-time analysis for any of the
components. If a component experiences problems, you can see where in the application the
problems arise, and determine how problems spread to other objects. VMware Aria
Operations
provides for calendar periodicity. If your application includes work
performed on a specific day of the month, for example, the 15th of the month or the last
day of the month, this calendar function identifies the pattern after six cycles of the
application. Once the pattern is recognized, the system can forecast accurately into the
future. Because the system acquires its information from the input data, you do not have
to give any details about how you schedule periodical work.