How Application Manager Finds and Gathers Applications

Application Manager is built by gathering local and remote application groups. The application groups are gathered from directories located along the application search path.

The default application search path consists of the locations shown in Table 4–1.

To create the top level of Application Manager, links are created at login time from the application groups (directories) located in directories on the application search path to the Application Manager directory /var/dt/appconfig/appmanager/login-hostname-display. The gathering operation is done by the desktop utility dtappgather, which is automatically run by Login Manager after the user has successfully logged in.

For example, the desktop provides the built-in application group:

/usr/dt/appconfig/appmanager/language/Desktop_Tools

At login time, a symbolic link is created to:

/var/dt/appconfig/appmanager/login-hostname-display/Desktop_Tools

The application search path can include remote directories. This provides a way to gather application groups from systems located throughout the network. For more information, see Adding an Application Server to the Application Search Path.