Application Intelligence

Owned by Venkataraman Padmanabhan (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Aug 10, 2021 by Kumar Desai (Unlicensed)
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Enabling Application Intelligence

To enable APPLICATION INTELLIGENCE feature in CMP platform,

  1. Login to the portal with the cloud admin credentials.

  2. Navigate to ADMIN >Feature Preferences. The Feature Preferences Profile page is displayed.

3. Select one feature preferences profile by clicking the appropriate row. The Edit Feature Profile page with two tabs (OVERVIEW and PROFILE DETAILS) is displayed.

4. Click PROFILE DETAILS. A page with multiple features is displayed. Please note that the checkboxes are segregated into three sections.

5. Navigate to the Others section, and select the Application Intelligence check box.

Integration

To integrate CloudPlan with CloudSphere, perform the following.

  1. Login to the portal with the required credentials.

  2. Navigate to ADMINISTRATION > APPLICATION INTELLIGENCE. The Application Intelligence page is displayed.

3. Enter relevant information in the following text fields.

  • CloudPlan Hostname

  • CloudPlan Tenant ID

  • Username / Email (Admin)

  • Password (Admin)

4. Select an appropriate option from the Refresh Period drop-down menu.

5. Optional: Under the Service Filter section, select relevant options from the Review Status and Importance drop-down lists.

6. Optional: Add tags in the Tags field.

7. Click SAVE. The changes are saved successfully.

 

NOTE: Click SYNC DATA to sync data between the CloudPlan and CloudSphere portal. If you want to remove the integration, click REMOVE INTEGRATION.

Use Case

Once a service is discovered by the portal, tags are assigned to all its underlying resources. Please refer to the example below.

Two services (Service A and Service B) are discovered. Each service has two resources.

  • Service A - Resource A1 and Resource A2

  • Service B - Resource B1 and Resource B2

The below mentioned tags will be assigned to the above resources.

  • Tag T1 (Key 1: Value 1) will be assigned to resources part of Service A (Resource A1 and Resource A2)

  • Tag T2 (Key 2: Value 2) will be assigned to resources part of Service B (Resource B1 and Resource B2)

The above tags will appear as part of the tags filter in the COST & USAGE page and BUDGET MANAGEMENT page. The user can use the above mentioned tags to know the cost of maintaining the service.

 

 

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