Create an application signature

To create an application signature in the Tiers tree:

  1. Make sure you have already created a Tier into which you want to create an application signature.
  2. Select the Tiers into which you want to create the signature in either the Tiers tree or map.
  3. From the Application menu, select New Application Signature . The Properties pane becomes active and ready to be filled out for the new signature.
  4. In the Properties pane for an application signature, enter any of the following information:
    • Process Name: The name of the process family.
    • Command Line: The command line that a signature was started with.
    • Executable Path: The path to the executable file of this application component.
    • Open Files: The name of an open file.
    • Modules: The shared libraries associated with the process family. These include DLLs on Windows and shared object files on UNIX.
    • Environment Variables: For environment variables, enter a name, the value, or both to find matching process families, where NAME is the name of the environment variable, and VALUE is its value. If you want to find an exact match, you must use both NAME=VALUE.
    • Connected to Port: The port the signature is connected to.
    • Listener Port: The port on which the signatures are listening.
      • Alias: The name of the application component as displayed in the different views.
      • Background color: Click to change the background color displayed in the different maps.
      • Foreground color: Click to change the foreground text color displayed in the different maps.
  5. After each entry, press Return on your keyboard to enter the property.
  6. When you have finished defining the signature, click Refresh Snapshot on the SAV toolbar so SAV can update the snapshot and scan your data center to find matching process families.