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Monitor Application Availability

To monitor application availability, edit the application properties to enable availability monitoring. By default, availability monitoring is disabled.

When deciding which applications to monitor for availability, we recommend monitoring:

• User-defined applications with assigned servers. The management console does not monitor application availability when the application is:
  • Automatically monitored (system-defined)
  • User-defined with an assigned server subnet
  • Assigned to all servers in a domain
• Priority Applications. If you set an availability OLA on an application that is not a priority application, and the management console grooms the application or filters the application data, the management console will unnecessarily check the availability of the application. The management console does not groom or filter priority applications.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Administration page.
2. Click Data Monitoring, Applications in the Show Me menu.
3. Scroll to the Application List, select the user-defined application you want, and click Edit.

   Application Properties opens.

   To more easily find user-defined applications, use the Show menu to hide system-defined applications.

4. Click the Availability Monitoring list and choose Enabled, then click OK.
5. If a load balancer distributes the application’s traffic between servers, edit the application’s server assignment to specify the number of servers that should be available.
6. 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.

More information:

Check Server Availability

How Priority Applications Work