Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Overview
The Hosts and Resources module discovers resources that exist on a host (for example, Disk, CPU, Users) as well as applications that run on that host. The module also discovers the relationships between the application and the relevant processes, the appropriate services, and the relevant IP Service Endpoint (port).
The Host Resources by Shell/SNMP/WMI and Host Applications by Shell/SNMP/WMI jobs:
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Discover the TCP connections of the discovered machines, using Shell or SNMP.
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Store the information in the Data Flow Probe-dedicated
netflowdatabase. -
Query the Data Flow Probe database for TCP information.
The Host Resources by Shell and the Host Applications by Shell jobs also gather connectivity information (either by running netstat commands or the lsof command).
The relationships between processes and the relevant IP Service Endpoint (server port) can be discovered on Windows 2003 and Windows XP, SunOS, Hewlett-Packard UniX (HP-UX), AIX, and Linux operating systems.
For the HP-UX and AIX machines, you should install lsof software, which can be downloaded from the Internet from, for example, http://www.netadmintools.com/html/lsof.man.html. You can install lsof software also on SunOS. If you do not, the pfiles software that is installed on SunOS is used.
Note Process to process (P2P) discovery is the name given to the discovery of processes running on hosts in the environment.
