Monitor Security Status for Applications Using Cisco Secure Application

This page focuses on the current state of security capabilities across applications, tiers, and nodes. You can control the security setting (with the configure permission) and identify the issues with the agents that are not registered or are inactive. This image is an example of the Applications page:

Applications page

The top pane includes the visualization of the number of enabled, registered, and active nodes for all applications.

ENABLED NODES - nodes with security enabled.
REGISTERED NODES - nodes with APM agents that are registered with Cisco Secure Application.
ACTIVE NODES - nodes with currently active registered APM agents.

Use the Application Scope Selector icon () to view the data for a specific application, then select the required tier to view the data for a specific service of the selected application. For information about selecting the application and tier scope, see Monitor Application Security Using Cisco Secure Application.

The bottom pane provides the following details:

The total number of applications is mentioned in parenthesis.

Field Name	Description
Application Name	This field displays the list of all applications. Click the flowmap icon () next to an application to view the application flow map in the AppDynamics dashboard. Click this field to sort in alphabetical order. This field changes when you click to drill down to the tier list, then the node list. You can use the respective Search filter for each list view to quickly search the application, tier, or node.
Total Nodes	This field displays the total number of nodes that exist in the corresponding application. You can drill down to tiers or nodes list to view the total number of nodes in a tier, or a node respectively. Click this field to sort the number of nodes in increasing or decreasing order.
Agent Registered	This field displays the number of nodes that are registered with the Cisco Secure Application for the corresponding application. You can drill down to tiers or nodes list to view the number of registered nodes in a tier, or a node respectively. The info icon () indicates that there are security-enabled nodes that are not registered with the agent. Click this field to sort the number of registered nodes in increasing or decreasing order.
Agent Active	This field displays the number of nodes that are active for the corresponding application. You can drill down to tiers to view the number of active nodes in a tier. When you drill down to the nodes list, this field indicates if the node is active or not. The info icon () indicates that there is a difference in the number of enabled nodes as compared to active nodes. (For application and tiers) Click this field to sort the number of active nodes in increasing or decreasing order. (For nodes) Click this field to sort based on the values Yes or No.
Security Setting	This field displays these security settings for the corresponding application: Enabled: When the security setting is enabled for the nodes. Disabled: When the security setting is disabled for the nodes. Inherit: When the security setting is inherited from the Controller. By default, the security setting is Disabled. Therefore, Security Status is Disabled for the application. For tiers and nodes, the security setting is inherited from the parent application and tier respectively. You can drill down to tiers or nodes list to view the security settings of a tier, or a node respectively. You can update these settings if you have the Configure Cisco Secure Application permission. Be aware that changing security settings at one level affect other levels. When you update Security Setting for any object (application, tier, or node), it can affect all the nodes in the object hierarchy (Application>Tier>Node). This happens when Security Setting is set to Inherit for either the object or its parent object. Click this field to sort the security setting in alphabetical order.
Security Status	This field displays the security status for the corresponding application based on the security setting. This field displays if the security status is enabled or disabled for the corresponding application based on the security setting. You can drill down to tiers or nodes list to view the security status of a tier, or a node respectively. Click this field to sort the status based on whether the status is enabled or disabled. If you have the Configure permission, you can change the security status using the Set Status option.
Last Activity	This field provides the timeframe when the last activity is detected.
Node Version	This field is displayed only when you drill down to the nodes list. This displays the version of the agent node used by the tier.