Something that makes these application monitors part of NPM or SAM:
http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/2239
Issue: When monitoring an AIX server that is an LPAR on a larger system, the SNMP stats are of the larger system making it so that every server on the larger system has the exact same statistics for CPU and memory. This makes us look like fools in a metrics presentation.... (at least I did)