Introduction

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The following sections provide an overview of Cisco AppDynamics and the Cisco: AppDynamics PowerPack:

What is Cisco AppDynamics?

Cisco AppDynamics is a real-time data platform for application and business performance monitoring. AppDynamics enables users to monitor applications at the code level to help them better understand their users' experience while also providing a real-time view of their applications' performance.

What Does the Cisco: AppDynamics PowerPack Monitor?

The Cisco: AppDynamics PowerPack enables you to monitor configuration and performance metrics for AppDynamics applications, tiers, and nodes. The PowerPack includes the following features:

  • Dynamic Applications that discover and monitor AppDynamics devices
  • Device Classes for each type of AppDynamics component device that the Cisco: AppDynamics PowerPack can monitor
  • Event Policies and corresponding alerts that are triggered when AppDynamics devices meet certain status criteria
  • A sample SOAP/XML Credential for discovering AppDynamics devices
  • Run Book Actions and Policies that automatically create AppDynamics Application virtual devices
  • A device template that is used to align the PowerPack's Dynamic Applications to AppDynamics Application virtual devices

ScienceLogic recommends running the latest version of the AppDynamics Agent when monitoring Cisco AppDynamics applications in SL1.

Installing the Cisco: AppDynamics PowerPack

Before completing the steps in this section, you must import and install the latest version of the Cisco: AppDynamics PowerPack.

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack overwrites all content from a previous version of that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent new PowerPacks from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields. (For more information, see the section on Global Settings.)

The minimum required MySQL version is 5.6.0.

To download and install the PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions button and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears.
  4. Click [Browse] and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPacks page.

If you exit the PowerPack Installer modal without installing the imported PowerPack, the imported PowerPack will not appear in the PowerPacks page. However, the imported PowerPack will appear in the Imported PowerPacks modal. This page appears when you click the Actions menu and select Install PowerPack.