XpoLog help - Application
 
General
Applications are logical units that serve as containers for XpoLog components: logs, folders, monitors, accounts, templates, wizards, tasks, schedulers, configuration images and XpoLog enterprise nodes. You will often use applications to define applications in XpoLog - by setting application's properties that define an application (such as application name, application type, version and so on) and by adding different XpoLog components to it. Applications are then used to group together different XpoLog components, such as in the case of viewing reports or system health. They can further be used to enter XpoLog in a certain context, so that users will work in the context of applications - viewing and editing only these components in XpoLog that belong to these meta datas.

Creating applications
  1. From the 'Data Support' menu select 'Applications' to enter the 'Applications List' page.
  2. Click 'add new' to create a new application or 'edit' of an existing one to edit it.
  3. In the 'General settings' section, enter the Id of the meta data. It is not possible to change the Id of an existing meta data.
  4. Enter the application's name. You can further enter a description for the application.
  5. In the 'Properties' section, enter the properties that best define your application. XpoLog comes with a set of predefined properties: Applications, Version, Build, Platform, Operating System and Vendor. In places where a property can be selected from a combo box, you can select 'other' and enter a new value. This value will then be added to the list of available values of that property. Since the 'Application' property has a tree structure, if you select the 'other' entry you will be prompted to enter the name of the already existing application under which the new entry should be placed. To add a new property that is not already included in the set of displayed properties, click the 'add new property' link and enter the property's type and value. Click the 'remove' link to remove and existing property.
  6. In the 'Search Context Menu' section, you can define search context menus to enable search of logged data in data repositories, such as search engines and wikis. The context menus entered here apply to all logs that will later be associated with this application. To add a new search context menu, click the 'Add Menu' link and enter the name of the data repository (i.e. Google) and the URL to be used for the search.

Setting application members
As described above, applications are containers of XpoLog components. To associate XpoLog components to an existing application, follow these steps:
  1. From the 'Data Support' menu select 'Applications' to enter the 'Applications List' page.
  2. >Click the 'members' link of an existing application to enter the 'System members of application ...' page.
  3. Select the component type by clicking on the appropriate tab and select the members you want to associate with the application.
  4. Click 'save' to complete the application members definition.
Additional links
     Application permissions