What are "Applications" supposed to do?

[Vide]

Hi

I've lloked carefully through the 1.6 manual but I cannot find out (a part from an obvious description) what "Applications", in the "Hosts" tab, are supposed to do.
Any idea?

[Calimero]

Application don't do much.

They just allow you to group items.

You could create a "Memory" application, and attach all memory related items to it. Same with a "MySQL" Application. Then when you go to Monitoring > Latest data, items will be grouped by application (and you can show/hide applications if you're only interested in MySQL items at that moment, for example).

Application can also be a filter when defining Actions (alerts). You could create an Action with filter "Application = MySQL" to notify your DBA. As only items are linked to Applications, I assume that zabbix evaluates what Applications items are in, when a trigger goes on.

[Vide]

Ok thanks for the clarification... maybe the name should be changed to something more appropiate or descriptive. Personally I found "Application" a bit misleading (something like Categories perhaps?)