From the left menu, click

Configure

Application and Services

. From the right pane, click the

Application Discovery: Rule Based

tile.

The rule based application discovery provides you the following options.

Specify grouping criteria for each rule, it can be tags, object names, or properties
Apply additional filters to the rule to limit the scope of objects considered for grouping

You can discover applications based on the user defined criteria such as object names, tags, or properties. After the rules are created you can assign these rules to specific objects.

VMware Aria Operations

discovers applications based on these rules and displays them in Applications Home page.

You can modify or delete the application definition. To edit or delete the application definition, click the vertical ellipsis next to the application and select

Edit

or

Delete

. If you select the edit option you are redirected to the

Edit Application Definition

page, here you can modify the application definition and save the changes. If you select the delete option, you are prompted with a confirmation message, click

Yes

to delete the application definition. Please note that if you delete the application definition, the applications that were discovered by that definition are also deleted.