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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YoucanperformthefollowingactionsfromtheActionspaneontheleftsideofthescreen:
AddFingerprint:Createsanewfingerprint.
EditFingerprint:Modifiesanexistingfingerprint.
DeleteFingerprint:Removesafingerprint.
TheVMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManagerOnlineHelpprovidesstep‐by‐stepinstructionsonhowto
performtheseactions.
Aging
ADMallowsyoutocreateentityagingpolicies.Agingistheremovalofaninactiveentityanditsowned
entitiesfromADM.Aninactiveentityisanetworkelement,service,ordependency,andanyoftheirderived
elements,suchasaJ2EEordatabaseinstancethathavenotbeenverifiedas
liveforsomepredefinedamount
oftime.Forexample,aservicerunninginyournetworkispopulatedintheMDR,andisthereforevisibleto
youthroughtheADMconsole.Ifthisserviceisuninstalledatalatertime,itshouldnolongerbeshownasa
runningservicein
theADMconsole.Creatinganentityagingpolicyallowsyoutoviewthemostupdatedstate
ofyournetwork,sinceitisaconstantlychangingenvironment.
Agingisperformedthroughagingpolicies.Whenyoucreateanewagingpolicy,thedefaulttimelimitisseven
days.Youcanchangethisdefault
asdescribedintheVMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManagerOnlineHelp
TheAgingPolicieslistcontainsgeneralinformationaboutexistingagingpolicies.ToaccesstheAgingPolicies
list,selectManage>Aging.TheAgingPolicieslistisshownbelow.
ClickonthetopofacolumnontheAgingPolicieslist
tosortthelistbythatcolumn.
Youcanperformthefollowingactionswithagingpolicies:
AddPolicy:Createsanewagingpolicy.
CopyPolicy:Makesacopyofanexistingagingpolicy.
EditPolicy:Modifiesanexistingagingpolicy.
DeletePolicy:Removesanagingpolicy.
EnablePolicy:Enablesanagingpolicy.
DisablePolicy:Disablesanagingpolicy.
TheVMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManagerOnlineHelpprovidesstep‐by‐stepinstructionsonhowto
performtheseactions.
Table 3‐3listsanddescribestheagingpolicyinformationintheAgingPolicieslist.