Create business application definitions

A business application definition allows you to transform a data display that contains extraneous and hard-to-understand information into a focused and easy-to-understand view of the relevant data. Based on business application tiers and application signatures that you create, SAV recognizes actual application processes and displays them in the Tiers Map according to any visual customizations you make to them.

You create business application definitions in order to recognize processes by giving them meaningful names and appearances (colors). You also use business application definitions to define the logical tiers of an application and display application signatures according to the tier in which they reside.

See Signature evaluation order for information on the order in which SAV scans application signatures and matches them to processes and process families on servers.

For information on understanding and creating application definitions, see the following topics:

• Business application tiers
• Creating a tier
• Application signatures
• Create an application signature