Features

SAV enables you to perform the following tasks:

• Discover, map, and visualize the process families, connections, dependencies, and storage of multi-tiered business applications
• Visualize business applications that run on virtual servers, showing virtual servers in relationship to their hypervisors, as well as virtual switches and port groups (VMware ESX only)
• Visualize business application information in multiple physical and logical layouts, such as an application view, a server view, a network view (including virtual network devices), and an infrastructure view that provides detailed inventory and infrastructure information related to objects scanned.
• Visualize Oracle database instances, including their tablespaces and connection to database files (including redo logs).
• Organize recognized application signatures into multi-tier applications to create a logical view that can be analyzed to verify correct operation
• Map business application process families to application signatures and highlight them with custom color schemes
• Create, schedule and compare snapshots of your Business Applications and all the data captured in them
• Filter business application snapshots to find exactly the data you are looking for
• Create and share business application templates that represent an ideal application definition
• Run scripts on devices or the Global File System (OGFS) on a one-time or scheduled basis
• Troubleshoot and resolve problems by launching the Device Explorer, Network Device Explorer, Global Shell, Remote Terminal, and NAS interface to perform in-depth analysis or to perform actions on the systems under investigation
• Export maps to .png, .png, and .svg files
• Export tables (Properties and Infrastructure tabs) to .csv

SAV prerequisites

In order to scan and visualize devices and relationships in SAV, the following requirements must be met:

• Server Agent version 10.0 or later to scan and visualize managed servers from a SA core. The exceptions to this requirement is VMware ESXi Server, which does not require an SA agent for scanning and visualizing those servers in SAV
• NA 10.0 or later server in order to scan network devices and connections

Supported operating systems

SAV collects and displays data about managed servers that are running AIX, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, VMware ESX, and Windows operating systems. If you are running non-standard kernels on a Linux operating system, SAV might depend on the kernel version, in addition to the operating system version.

For more detailed information on SAV platform support, see the SA Support and Compatibility Matrix.