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before you can add them to a distributed application using the Distributed Applications De-
signer, a tool available from the Operations Manager console.
The Distributed Application Designer allows you to create distributed applications using
a graphical tool. This graphical tool is shown in Figure 2-60. The figure shows three groups
named Databases, Management Servers, and Infrastructure.

FIGURE 2-60 Distributed Application Designer

You create distributed applications with the distributed application designer by using the
following:

Objects Any object that has been discovered by Operations Manager can be used
when building a distributed application.

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Component Groups These are collections of objects. Before you can add an object
to a distributed application, you need to add that object to the component group.
Component groups can contain any type of object, though it's also possible to restrict
component groups to objects of a specific class.

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Relationships These allow you to express that a relationship exists between two dif-
ferent component groups.

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