User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Application Discovery Manager User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Architecture Overview
- Getting Started
- Managing ADM
- Groups
- Discovery
- Application Patterns
- Report
- Connectors
- Solver
- Index
ADM User’s Guide
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ADM Architecture Solutions
ADMprovidesaSingle‐BoxsetupandDistributedsetuptomeettheneedsofdifferentenvironments.The
followingsectionscontainmoreinformationaboutthearchitecturesolutions.
Single-Box Setup
InaSingle‐Boxsetup,alltheADMmodesareenabledonasingleapplianceasshowninFigure 1‐1.
Figure 1-1. Single-Box Setup Architecture
Single-Box Appliance Configuration
IfyouareusingaSingle‐Boxsetup,youneedtoperformthestepsdescribedinVMwarevCenterApplication
DiscoveryManagerAdministrationGuide.
VMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManagerAdministrationGuidealsodescribeshowtomoveanexisting
Single‐BoxsetuptoaDistributedsetuporDistributedwithremotedatabasesetup.
Distributed Appliance Solutions
ADistributedappliancesolutionhasthefollowingtwooptions:
Distributedsetup
Distributedwithremotedatabasesetup
Distributed Setup
TheDistributedsetuphasatleastonedesignatedapplianceenabledasaCollector,andanotherappliance
enabledasanAggregatorandDatabaseasshowninFigure 1‐2.
Database
All modes
Database
Aggregator
Collector
Management
Passive
Detail
Discovery