You can perform an advanced application discovery to discover applications using a combination of VM names, NSX-V security tags, and security group tags from your VMware vCenter, Azure, AWS, and NSX-T environments.
Procedure
- From the left navigation panel, go to .
- Select the Advanced tab.
- (Optional) If you have already defined a template using which you want to perform application discovery, select the template from the App discovery templates drop-down menu. The application discovery starts automatically.
- Define the scope based on which you want to discover applications and tiers.
- Select All VMs to see a list of all VMs from all the data sources that are added in VMware Aria Operations for Networks.
- Select Manual Selection and filter the VMs based on your requirement like account, data center, manager, and so on.
For example, this query limits the discovery of applications to specific regions:
VMs where Region in ( 'Central US' , 'East US' )
- Group applications by different VM properties using regular expressions based pattern matching.
- (Optional) Click Found count Applications to see the list of application names, VM names, and the number of VMs that matches the regular expression.
- (Optional) Click Unclassified VMs to see a list of VMs that are not following the specified name pattern.
- (Optional) Select Save changes to to create a template or update an existing template.
Note: If you are an admin user, you can update all templates. If you are a member user, you can only edit the templates that you had created.
- Click Discover.
What to do next
View the discovered applications. To learn more, see Viewing Discovered Applications.