When you are performing flow-based application discovery, vRealize Network Insight provides an option to set up naming preference for your applications and tiers. Setting up naming preferences helps you create logical or meaningful names for your applications and tiers.
By default, vRealize Network Insight names the applications and the tiers based on the names of the VMs that are part of applications and tiers. If the VM names are not logical or meaningful, then applications and tier names do not help you to find the actual applications or tiers.
From version 6.2 onwards, when you perform flow-based application discovery, you can set a naming preference for your applications and tiers. vRealize Network Insight automatically renames the existing applications and tiers, and names the newly discovered applications and tiers, as per your set naming preference.
Procedure
- In the Scope bar of the Flows tab, click MODIFY.
- In the Discovery Preferences window, click Application and Tier Naming.
- From the Applications drop-down menu, select the naming preference you want to add.
You can select any one of the following naming preferences:
- VM names
- VM tags
- Security groups
- Security tags
- Load Balancer (Virtual Servers)
vRealize Network Insight renames your applications based on the properties you select. You can see how your selection changes the application names in the Tip section.
- From the Tiers drop-down menu, select the naming preference you want to add for your tiers.
- If you do not find your preferred naming preference from the drop-down menu, you can upload a .csv file with your custom properties. To upload a .csv file, select the Upload CSV to name Applications and Tiers check box and browse and select the file that you want to upload.
- Click SUBMIT.
If applications or tiers do not match you selected naming preference, then the system renames applications or tiers based on the VM names.
