SAV business application management

In SAV, a snapshot represents the state of a set of network devices and managed servers, the process families running on those servers, the connections among those process families, file systems, and any external clients and dependencies. Snapshots can be saved as part of a Business Application into the SA Client Library, or as a .vam file to a local or remote file system. A Business Application can contain any number of Snapshots, each of which can used for Snapshot comparisons.

However, in order to save Business Applications to the Library or OGFS, your user account needs permissions to be able to write to those directories. To obtain the necessary permissions, contact your SA administrator.

Opening a business application

After you have launched the SAV, you can open a previously saved Business Application.

To open a Business Application:

In the SAV window, select the toolbar icon or select the File menu and then select Open to display the Open window.

In the Look in drop-down list, select the directory on your computer, in the SA Library, or the OGFS where the Business Application was saved.

Click Open.

Saving a business application

To save a Business Application:

1. From the File menu, select Save or Save As to open the Save window. (Note that by default, all scan results are selected to be saved.)
2. If you chose Save As, in the Save in drop-down list, select the your local computer, the SA Library, or the OGFS and choose where you want to save the Business Application.
3. Click Save.

If you exit SAV before saving your changes (either application definition changes or Snapshot changes), you are prompted to choose whether you want to save your changes and then exit or exit without saving your changes.

Saving a business application as an application template

If you would like to save the current application definition as a template, so it can be reused or set to open SAV using that definition, see Business application templates.