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Why System-Defined Applications are Excluded

To avoid incorrectly opening an availability incident, the management console does not automatically monitor the availability of system-defined applications. For example, the first time the management console observes TCP traffic on Port 80 of a server, it will automatically create an instance of the HTTP application. But, enabling availability monitoring on that application would probably produce many false availability incidents, because the management console would expect to see HTTP running on every server on the domain, not just the server where the traffic was initially seen.

(Optional) To set an availability OLA for an application and apply the OLA to all of the servers monitored by the management console, create a user-defined application and assign it a domain. The management console automatically keeps the application server assignments up-to-date as your server subnets change.