Updated on 2024-03-19 GMT+08:00

Creating an Application

You can group resources with a shared business purpose as an application. These applications will be used for getting target resource recommendations and creating migration workflows.

Creating an Application for the First Time

  1. Log in to the MgC console.
  2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Research > Application Discovery. Select a migration project in the upper left corner of the page.
  3. When you access the page for the first time, click Create Application in the procedure.

    If a discovery task has been created, click Create Application in the Application box.

  4. Enter an application name and description, select a service scenario and environment, select the region you are migrating to, and click Create Application. The application is successfully created and the page for adding resources to the application is displayed.

    • If resources have been discovered, and you want to add the discovered resources to the created application, select the resources and click Add Now.
    • If no resources have been discovered, click Add Later. You can add resources to the application later.

Creating More Applications

  1. On the Application Discovery page, click Create Application in the Application pane.
  2. Specify an application name and description, select the business scenario and environment, select the region where you want to provision target resources, and click OK. After the application is created, it will be displayed in the application list.

Managing Applications

You can manage applications by business domain.

  1. On the Application Discovery page, click View next to Business domains.

  2. Click Add, enter the business domain name, select the applications you want to add to this domain, and click Save.

Modifying an Application

This operation is only supported for simple projects.

  1. In the application list, locate the application you want to modify and click Modify in the Operation column.
  2. Modify application parameters and click OK.