Configuring application groups in the EMC

The Exinda Management Center provides a comprehensive set of built-in Application Groups for you to use, but you can also define Custom Application Groups.

Although an application can be a member of multiple application groups, to prevent conflict it can only be a member of the application group that is currently monitoring traffic. For example, Skype cannot be added to both the Voice group and the Messaging group because EMCExinda Management Center, SaaS service to centrally monitor and configure multiple Exinda appliances can gather data from only one monitored application group for reporting.

When an Application Group is created in the librarythe Exinda repository for network objects and their definitions, it is applied tenant-wide and is therefore available in every appliance group within an Appliance Group section. If an application group is set for monitoring and/or being used in the optimizer tree, then this application group is pushed to the respective appliances within the push configuration.

If a custom application is added to an application group, where the group does not exist in the configuration of the appliances, the application is first added to the appliances and then the group is imported.

In addition, the following limitations should be noted:

  • If one application within a group is not supported by an appliance, then that application definition will not be sent to that specific appliance.
  • If you try to add an application to an appliance with a firmware version does not support the application, the EMC displays an error for the appliance and the application is not imported. However, the appliance does import the application group along with other settings.