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Delete a User-Defined Application

Delete a user-defined application to remove it from the Application List, and optionally, create a port exclusion to prevent the management console from attempting to automatically monitor the corresponding application port.

When considering which applications to delete, keep the following points in mind:

• Avoid monitoring applications that are not time-sensitive, such as a backup application where the response time of the application is less critical.
• Applications that take more system resources on the monitoring device and the management console to process rather than filter out, and are less critical, are good candidates to delete. For example, a backup application can generate traffic across all the client IPs in your environment, which can consume a lot of rows in the database, and create a higher load on each monitoring device.

After you delete an application, existing data continues to be available for reporting purposes according to your database settings.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Administration page.
2. Click Data Monitoring, Applications in the Show Me menu.
3. If you have defined domains in the CA PC or the CA NPC, you do not need to choose a domain. Any changes you make to the application apply across domains.
4. Scroll to the Application List, select an application from the list and click Delete.

   The management console prompts you to confirm the deletion and optionally, prevent the management console from automatically monitoring the application by adding a matching port exclusion.

   • Click Delete to delete the application and allow the management console to recreate the application from observed application traffic.
   • Click Delete and Add Port Exclusions to delete the application and create a port exclusion rule to prevent the management console recreating the application from observed application traffic.
5. Click the link to synchronize monitoring devices with the current client network, server subnet, and application definitions on the management console.

   Monitoring devices temporarily stop monitoring application performance during synchronization. To minimize interruptions to monitoring, complete all of your changes before synchronizing monitoring devices.

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