Understanding the applications used in your company's environment helps you to keep track of asset usage and report on costs. Here we will configure your company's applications and associate them with the appropriate assets.
In the Configuring business entities for your company section, we created some business entities, and recommended that you list out all the applications you associate with each business entity. OnCommand Insight allows us to then track data associated with those applications for things like usage or cost reporting.
Before you can track data associated with the applications running in your environment, you must first define those applications and associate them with the appropriate assets. You can associate applications with the following assets: hosts, virtual machines, volumes, internal volumes, qtrees, shares, and hypervisors.
In this walkthrough, we want to track the usage of virtual machines that the Marketing Team uses for its Exchange email. You will remember the following table we created while defining our business entities. Let's add a column to this worksheet listing the applications used by each business entity. (This table is a worksheet example only. You will not see an Applications
column in the business entities table in Insight.)
Tenant | Line of Business | Business Unit | Project | Applications |
---|---|---|---|---|
NetApp | Data Storage | Legal | Patents | Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle On Demand, PatentWiz |
NetApp | Data storage | Marketing | Sales Events | Exchange, Oracle Shared DataBase, BlastOff Event Planner |
N/A | N/A | Safety and Security | N/A | N/A |
... |
Creating applications in Insight:
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We see that the Marketing Team uses the Exchange application. We want to see their virtual machine utilization for Exchange, in order to predict when we will need to add more storage. Let's associate the Exchange application with all of Marketing's VM's. The easiest way to accomplish this is through a query.
By following these steps, you can associate each of your applications with their appropriate assets.
Associating Applications to assets:
Now that you have created your applications (and tied them to business entities, as desired), we can now associate those applications with assets in your environment. In this example, we will associate the Exchange application with a number of virtual machines in your company. The easiest way to do this is what a query.
_mktg_. In the Name filter box, enter
_mktg_(without quotes) and click the apply (checkmark) button.
_mktg_string is shown.
Exchange.