How to configure Applications in up.time

up.time Applications are an effective method for monitoring IT application availability. While an Application can have many sub-services, you can also define a service that represents the true state of the application. This strategy allows you to better analyze component outages versus true application outages.

An Application provides the overall status for one or more services. For example, you can create an Application that checks the status of a system's web services, database and file system capacity.

To set up an Application, you must specify the following:

• A master service monitor, which acts as an anchor with which all other monitors will be associated.
• Regular service monitors, which are the individual service monitors that are associated with a master service monitor.

When you enable a master service monitor, all of the regular service monitors associated with it are also enabled.

Setting Up an Application

To set up an Application:

1. In the My Enterprise panel, click Add Application.
2. Give the Application a name and a description.
3. Select the group of systems in your up.time environment that will be associated with this system from the Parent Groups dropdown list (optional).

   By default, the application is added to the My Enterprise group.

4. Select one of the following options from the dropdown list above the Available Master Service Monitors list:
   
   

   

   • The name of a system to which the Application will be assigned.
   • Add All, which associates the Application with all of the systems in your environment.
   • Select one or more of the service monitors from the list and then click Add.
   • Select one of the following options from the dropdown list above the Available Regular Service Monitors list:
     
     

     

     • The name of a service monitor to which the Application will be assigned.
     • Add All, which associates the Application with all of the service monitors in your environment.
   • Select one or more of the service monitors from the list and then click Add.
   • Click Save.

The name of the Application should now appear in the My Enterprise panel as a hyperlink. Click the name to view Application details.