NetProfiler's Service Monitoring definitions allow users to:

NetProfiler's Service Monitoring feature is designed to provide a business-centric view of IT performance. It allows administrators to define a "business service" by grouping together multiple related applications and network components. This aggregates their individual performance metrics into a single, consolidated dashboard for the service. This contextualizes raw network and application data, making it easier to understand the performance and availability of critical business functions, rather than just monitoring isolated IT elements.

B. Define general applications by IP addresses and ports: This describes Application Definitions, which is a foundational step but distinct from Service Monitoring, which groups these applications into a higher-level service.

C. Manage application definitions on synced AppResponse appliances: While NetProfiler can integrate with AppResponse, the Service Monitoring feature itself is for performance aggregation and contextualization, not for managing configurations on other appliances.

D. Enable automatic baselines on specific interfaces or interface groups: Automatic baselining is a separate, powerful feature in NetProfiler that learns normal behavior for various metrics, but it is not configured through Service Monitoring definitions.

1. Riverbed NetProfiler User's Guide: In the "Service Monitoring" chapter, the guide states, "Service Monitoring provides a business-centric view of your network and application performance... You can define business services and monitor the performance of the applications that comprise each service." This directly supports the concept of grouping metrics in the context of business services. (Reference: Riverbed NetProfiler 10.17.x User's Guide, Chapter 11: "Service Monitoring," Page 215).

2. Riverbed SteelCentral NetProfiler Product Brief: This document describes the feature by stating, "Define business services and create service-level dashboards to monitor the performance of the applications that comprise each service." This aligns perfectly with grouping and monitoring in a business context. (Reference: Riverbed SteelCentral NetProfiler Product Brief, "Business-Centric Service Monitoring" section).