AppDimensions Overview
AppDimensions™ is an Outcomes driven Advanced Analytics Platform that provides cross-layer and cross-domain application operations analytics irrespective of underlying technology stacks to meet the desired business and operational outcomes. The core value is consistent and guaranteed application operational performance from business and operator point of view. AppDimensions is currently offered as software bundle that can be installed on-premises or on customer managed cloud. AppDimensions is built using Microservices architecture and runs on top of Macaw Microservices platform.

Terminology
- Discovery - Governance - Governance Score - Dimension - Insight - Environment - Infrastructure
- Account - Asset - Platform VM - Service VM - MDR - Shadow Service - Macaw (Admin Portal)
 
Setup and Installation

AppDimensions is a software appliance that can be very easily installed in your Datacenter or on Cloud.

- Approach - VMware

In this section, we document the process for local installation on VMware vSphere. AppDimensions is provided as two OVFs, one Platform VM and other is a Service VM.

- Download

Refer to the download E-mail links from account team.

- System Requirements

Platform VM: vCPU: 2, RAM: 8, vNICs: 1
Service VM: vCPU: 2, RAM: 16, vNICs: 1

 - Installation

Follow standard installation process through vSphere web client or vSphere thick client. Have standard config information handy: hostname, IP, subnet mask, gw, DNS, NTP etc.
 
Initial Platform Configuration
- Environment creation

An environment is contained pod of apps, and infrastructure. Create a Enviornment like Dev, QA, Staging or Prod

 - Add infra accounts

Each environment can have infrastructure accounts like vCenter, UCS Director etc. Add such accounts to the Environment

 - Gateway Setup

Each environment accesses the apps, infra using the AppDimensions Gateway that will be installed on a customer provided jumphost.
 
Discovery
- Add host, app credentials

AppDimensions Discovery is host-based discvoery. Add read-only credentials of all the hosts or Windows domains, and applications that you want AppDimensions to discover.

- Setup discovery profile

Specify the profile of apps that you want to Discover. Here you can specify protocol type to use to discover hosts and apps.

 - Discover apps

Now, you are ready to on-demand discovery of your hosts and apps. Select the profile that you have created and specify the target environment, and hosts/subnets/domains or list of IPs to run discovery on.

 - Verify results: graphs, app dependency stack

You can view discovery results, their configurations and dependencies, and Graphs and App Dependency Stacks

 
Governance

Governance allows you to ensure your application, infrastructure and IT environment behavior to align with IT operational outcomes. AppDimensions provides continuous governance across multiple-layers and multiple-dimensions.

- Specify Outcomes

Outcomes are set of high level business/IT operational objectives expected from applications, infrastructure and IT environments. Common outcomes are predefined in AppDimensions. Outcomes can also be created using – refer to detailed documentation for this

 - Start Governance

Once the target environment is fully discovered in AppDimensions, you can start governing the environment to view governance scores across multiple dimensions, using Insights.

 - View Governance Scores

You can view governance score (0 to 100) of apps, hosts, infra accounts. Latest governance score is shown in graphs, and a trend of the score is available for last 3months.
 
 
 
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