AI Application Discovery in AppViz

AppViz AI Application Discovery process simplifies how you can onboard applications to AppViz. This advanced feature leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and suggest applications and flows for onboarding into your system, making the discovery process faster and more intelligent.

AppViz uses AI to identify potential applications based on data from FireFlow tickets or AFA device policy tables, presenting these findings for your review before you decide to onboard them.

To Enable AI Application Discovery

This section describes the steps required in order to enable AI Application Discovery.

Note: You can create a list of blacklisted applications from AI discovery, see the property ai.blacklisted.applications.

Do the following:

  1. Connect ASMS to AppViz. For details, see Connect AppViz to ASMS.

  2. Navigate to the Administration area.

    • Hover over the SETTINGS icon at the bottom left of the screen. After the panel expands, click ADMINISTRATION.

    The Administration area appears in the workspace.

  3. Click on the DISCOVERY tab within Settings.

  4. Toggle on the Enable Auto Application Discovery.

  5. Click Save.

    AI Discovery data fetching from ASMS begins after the next scheduled objects sync. The duration of the AI Discovery process varies depending on the customer's data.

    Important: If you want AppViz to discover applications using AFA instead of FireFlow, follow the steps in Configure AI Discovery Settings before the next scheduled objects sync.

  6. (Optional) You can create a list of blacklisted applications from AI discovery by setting the ai.blacklisted.applications user property. For more information, see ai.blacklisted.applications.

Access the AI Application Discovery Suggestions page

This section explains how to access the AI Application Discovery where you can view applications found by AppViz.

Do the following:

  1. Navigate to the AI Application Discovery page in either of the following methods:

    • From the AppViz main menu, click DISCOVERY, and then select AI Application Discovery.

    • From the AppViz main menu, click APPLICATIONS, and then click on the notification in the top right of the screen.

    The AI Application Discovery import page appears.

Import AI Application Discovery Suggestions

This section explains how to select the applications you want to import to AppViz.

Do the following:

  1. Navigate to the AI Application Discovery Suggestions page. For details, see Access the AI Application Discovery Suggestions page.

  2. Use the checkboxes to the left of the application names to select which applications to import.

    Note: Applications are added in draft status. You can change the suggested application names to better fit your needs. You can modify application attributes or remove them as necessary

    The list of discovered applications includes the following columns:

    Column

    Description

    Application Name

    Name of the suggested application

    Tip: An alert will appear if the app name already exists in AppViz.

    To rename an app, click its name and modify it.
    Edit

    Hover over the application name to display the Edit button.

    Click to edit the application name.

    Occurrence Count

    The number of tickets where the app was detected by the AI.

    Tip: Hover over the occurrences value to see the most recent ticket number where the app was identified.

    Flow Count

    Number of flows where the app name appears.

    Contact

    Name of the Requestors associated with the detected change requests.

    Delete

    Hover over the row to display the Delete button.

    Click to remove the app from the list.

  3. Click Import.

    The applications are added to the Applications list.

    Applications and flows discovered through AI Discovery appear with special tags. For example:

    • for applications discovered from FireFlow tickets

    • for applications discovered from AFA device policy tables

    • for flows discovered using AI Discovery

Configure AI Discovery Settings

This section describes how to select the Source and Saved Search used by AI Discovery.

Do the following:

  1. Click DISCOVERY from the navigation menu on the left, and then click the discovered application source AI Application Discovery.

    The AI Application Discovery import page appears.

  2. Click AI Discovery Settings.

    The AI Discovery Settings dialog appears.

  3. Set the Source and Saved Search parameters as required.

    Note: If the AI Discovery Source is AFF, you can customize which Change Request fields are analyzed by setting the ai.used.custom.fields.in.cr user property. For more information, see ai.used.custom.fields.in.cr.

  4. Click Save.