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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Discovery Plans
Adiscoveryplanhelpsyoutocontrolthedepthofinformationdiscovered.Forexample,softwarechanges
frequentlyandhardwaredoesnotchangeoften.Therefore,youmightwanttodiscoversoftwareinformation
moreoftenthanhardwareinformation.Adiscoveryplanallowsyoutodefineexactlywhatwillbediscovered,
andthereforeimproves
performance.ADMletsyouincludeorexcludeboththepassiveanddetaildiscovery
ofspecifichosts,services,andconnectionswiththecreationofpassivediscoveryplansanddetaildiscovery
plans.“PassiveDiscovery”onpage 32containsinformationonpassivediscoveryplans,and“Detail
Discovery”onpage 33containsinformationondetaildiscovery
plans.
Passive Discovery
PassiveDiscoverydetectshosts,services,relationshipsanddependencies.Further,itdetectstheuseofeach
relationship,extractssomebasicproperties(thatis,URLs,tablenames,versionnumbers),andresolvesIPsto
hostnames.
Policies
StartPassiveDiscoveryaftercreatingaPassiveDiscoverypolicyinwhichyouspecifyanIPaddressrangeto
searchfortrafficandhosts.NavigatetoManage>PassiveDiscoverytoviewthePassiveDiscoveryPolicy
Definitionscreenandcreateapolicy.TheonlinehelpcontainsproceduralinformationforPassiveDiscovery
tasks.
Plans
YoucancreateaPassiveDiscoveryplanfromthePlantabwithinthePassiveDiscoveryPolicyDefinition
screen.
To create a Passive Discovery plan
1 Selectthediscoveryplanrules.Youhaveanoptiontodiscover,nottodiscoverandignorethefollowing:
Services
Protocols
Ports
Servicecategories
2 SelectorclearDiscoverbehavioroption.
3ClickUpdate.
PassiveDiscoveryplansareusefulwhenyouwanttoincludeorexcludethepassivediscoveryofcertainhosts,
services,orconnections.Thiswillalsoimproveperformance.Scenariosinwhichyoumightwanttocreatea
PassiveDiscoveryplanareasfollows:
TheSSHprotocolisnoisyandclutterstheMDRwithoutprovidinganyvalue.Sinceyouarenotinterested
indiscoveringtheSSHprotocolpassively,youcanspecifythisinthePassiveDiscoveryplan.
Forlicensingcontrol,youwanttoincludeorexcludeonlycertaindiscoveryservicessuchasBEAOEM.
IP Discovery
IPDiscoveryisamethodfordetectinghostsorotherconfigurationitemswithaspecificIPaddresswhen
passivediscoveryfailstofindthem.Forexample,ifahostispowereddownorifitisoutsidethespecifiedIP
range,passivediscoveryfailstofindit.Inthiscase,you
canuseIPdiscoverywithaTCPorICMPconnection
tofindCIs.IPdiscoverypoliciesarecreatedfromtheManage>IPDiscoverypage.