With Infrastructure Management, you can associate an application to a service. This feature helps an application or a service specialist to monitor an application's status relative to its service. You can link an application to a service through a Configuration Item (CI). When an application is impacted, an application impact event is generated which in turn impacts the CI. If this CI is a part of any service, the associated service is also impacted. The following figure illustrates this feature. In the following example, J2EEApp1 is a CI that is associated with the KidsBookStore application. J2EEApp1 is a part of the Service1 service. If the KidsBookStore application is impacted, it generates an application impact event which in turn impacts the Service1 service.
You can associate a manual application or an automatically generated application to a CI. The following sections describe how to link an application to a service:
To perform these procedures, you must have Application Administrator-level access.
You can associate an application to a CI by using one of the following methods:
Perform the following steps to associate a manual application to a CI:
On the Applications Management page, click the action menu icon
and select Create Application as shown in the following figure:Click Save at the bottom of the Create Application page.
Perform the following steps to associate a manual application or an automatically generated application to a CI:
On the Edit Application page, perform one of the following actions:
When you click either (Select) link or (Change) link, a CI search dialog box is opened with a list of CIs.
Either select a CI from the list or type the name of a CI to search, select it, and click OK as shown in the following figure.
Click Save at the bottom of the Edit Application page.
On the Application Management page, click the row action menu icon next to the application you want to edit and select Edit as shown in the following figure:
On the Edit Application page, click the (Remove) link beside the Associated CI label as shown in the following figure:
Click Save at the bottom of the Edit Application page.
You can perform one or more of the following procedures:
After your applications are created or discovered, and configured, you can monitor applications.