Tiers tree: Tiers, process family, signature properties

SAV displays property information about the following SAV elements in the Tiers Tree and maps:

• Business application properties
• Process family properties
• Extended process family properties
• Tier properties
• Tier folder properties
• Application signature properties

VMware ESXi hypervisor servers will not display in the Tiers Tree, although any VMs hosted on the servers will be displayed here.

Business application properties

A business application allows you create application tiers and application signatures, so SAV can recognizes application processes in your data center and display them in the Tiers Map.

The business application Properties pane displays the following information (properties with a * indicate editable fields):

• Name (*): Name of the Business Application
• Description (*): Description of the business application.
• Tiers: The number of tiers contained in the business application.
• Contacts (*): User created contacts (Application menu
• Custom Fields (*): Any Custom field you create is editable.

Process family properties

A process family is a collection of processes. The Properties Pane for a process family displays the following information:

• Name: The name of the controlling process of the family.
• Family ID: The unique ID given to the process family.
• Extended Family: The name of the extended process family, if the selected process family belongs to an extended process family.
• Max. Resident Memory: The maximum permanent memory used by the process family, in bytes.
• Max. Virtual Memory: The maximum permanent memory used by the process family, in bytes.
• Max. Run Time: The length of time the process has been running.
• Total CPU Time: The total length of time the process used CPU resources.
• Max CPU Utilization: The total amount of CPU resources used by the process.
• Group ID: The group ID of the process family on UNIX and the session ID on Windows.
• Listeners: The interface and port for each listener.
• Incoming connections: The connections incoming to the process family, grouped by process family (if known, the IP address otherwise) and interface.
• Outgoing connections: The connections outgoing from the process family, grouped by process family (if known, IP address otherwise) and interface.
• Modules: The shared libraries associated with the process family. These include DLLs on Windows and shared object files on UNIX.
• Open files: The files that the process family currently has open.
• Software Packages: The packages associated with the files that the process family has open.
• Processes: The number of individual processes in the process family. For each process, the following information is displayed:
  • PID: The process ID.
  • User: The user ID the process is running as.
  • Command line: The command line used to start the process.
  • Path: The path to the process binary.
  • Memory statistics: The percentage of physical memory consumed by the process, the resident size (in bytes) of the process and the virtual size (in bytes) of the process.
  • Run time: The time (in milliseconds) that the process has been running.
  • CPU Statistics: The CPU time accumulated by the process and the percentage of CPU consumed by the process since it began.
  • Environment: The name and value of each environment variable in the process environment.

  Extended process family properties

  An extended process family is a collection of process families. If one process family has a listener and another has a connection into that same port, then SAV joins them into an extended family. The Properties Pane for extended process families contains the following information:

  • Name: Name of the extended process family.
  • Process Families: Aa list of all process families
  • Incoming connections: The connections incoming to the process family, grouped by process family (if known, the IP address otherwise) and interface.
  • Outgoing connections: The connections outgoing from the process family, grouped by process family (if known, IP address otherwise) and interface.

  Tier properties

  The Properties Pane for a tier displays the following information (properties with a * indicate editable fields):

  • Name (*): The name of the application tier as displayed in the Tiers tree.
  • Subtiers: The number of subtiers that are currently recognized in the tier.
  • Application signatures: The number of application signatures currently recognized in the tier.
  • Device Filter (*): The devices that are associated with this tier. Only matching devices are filtered for matching applicationsignatures.

  Tier folder properties

  The Properties Pane for a tier displays the following information:

  • Name: The name of the folder as displayed in the Tiers tree.
  • Application Tiers: The number of subtiers that are currently recognized in the folder.
  • Application or signatures: The number of application signatures currently recognized in the folder.
  • Device Filter: The devices that are associated with the signatures in this folder. Only matching devices are filtered for matching application signatures.

  Application signature properties

  The Properties Pane for an application displays the following information (properties with a * indicate editable fields):

  • Name (*): The name of the application component as displayed in the Tiers tree.
  • Alias (*): The name of the application component as displayed in the different views. The name will be shown as an alias.
  • Families: The number of process families recognized as this application component.
  • Process Name (*): The process name filter used to recognize this application component.
  • Command Line: The command line filter used to recognize this application component.
  • Executable Path (*): The executable path filter used to recognize this application component.
  • Open Files (*): The open file filter used to recognize this application component.
  • Modules (*): Shared libraries that are associated with the process family, DLL files on Windows operating systems and shared object files on UNIX operating systems.
  • Environment Variable (*): The name and/or value of an environment variable that matches a process family associated with an application signature, where NAME is the name of the environment variable, and VALUE is its value. If you want to find an exact match, use both NAME=VALUE.
  • Ports Connected To (*): The port that the server is connected to.
  • Listener Port (*): The listen port used to recognize this application component.
  • Background Color (*): The background color displayed in the different maps.
  • Foreground Color (*): The foreground text color displayed in the different maps.