Use Infrastructure Navigator to map out applications on different VLANs

Hello. I will be trying out Infrastructure Navigator in our environment and I'm wondering how I would go about mapping out applications across our different VLANs. We have certain networks presented to certain clusters. Will I need to have a Navigator appliance in each network segment or will I be able to tell Navigator to look at all of the networks across the clusters?
Thanks for any information you can provide.

Hello CHJamey,
I just saw your post and I'd like to try to help.
As long as all the VLAN's are known objects in the vSphere, the VIN shouldn't have any issues with mapping out which VMs are communicating with other VMs.
You mentioned applications, could you perhaps be a little more specific? Did you mean Automatic Applications, Manual Applications, or the applications running inside the VMs?
-Michael.

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Raju --
Thanks for the intelligent posting on a difficult issue for you.
I wasn't aware of anything specifically being introduced that prevented the bootclasspath technique from working** in the 904 release.
For 904, the bootclasspath needs to be put in the start parameters tag of the java-options tag.
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**these workarounds are not supported and will put you in an unsupported situation if a problem occurs.
The good news is that have taken steps to clearly enable the separation of container versus appplication class spaces in thenext production release (10.1.3) of OC4J. We will be providing a new classloading model which cleanly separates the two namespaces and allows applications to provide their own versions or distributions of class libraries with no collisions with the OC4J runtime libraries.
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From: David Wilbur[SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 1997 2:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Using Drop-Down List in Express Application
To: [email protected]
cc:
Subject: Using Drop-Down List in Express Application
On an Express generated Form window I want to use a drop-down list to
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University of Windsor phone: 519-253-4232 ext. 2779
Windsor, Ontario Canada

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