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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Capabilities
OnceaVMwareenvironmentisdiscovered,youcanperformseveralfunctions.
Viewing Virtualization Dependencies
YoucanviewdependenciesinyourVMwareInfrastructureenvironmentbyselectingtherelevantitemsfrom
theDiscover>InventorypageandclickingVirtualizationintheDependenciespanel.Thisoptionallowsyou
toviewdependenciesfortheselectedobject.Forexample,youcanselectavirtualmachinefromtheinventory
andthen
clickVirtualizationtoviewitscontainers.Youcanalsoviewdependenciesinthemap.
Virtualization-Related Search
AfterdiscoveringyourVMwareInfrastructureenvironment,youcanperformsearchesonit.Forexample,you
cansearchforvirtualmachinesorVMwareESXServer.Toperformasearch,gototheDiscover>Inventory
pageandclickSearch.Thisoptionisshownbelow.
Finding Dependencies Between a VMware Infrastructure and Virtualized Business
Applications
Assumptions
YouhavecompletedactivediscoveryoftheVMwareInfrastructureenvironmentatleastonce,anddiscovery
ofthevirtualmachinesintheVMwareInfrastructureatleastonce.
Goal
AfterdetectingVMwareInfrastructureenvironmentinstancesinyournetwork,youwanttofindoutwhich
businessapplications(forexample,PeopleSoft)areontheseinstances.
Flow 1: Foundation to Virtualized Environment
To view your VMware environment
1 CreateagroupthatcontainstheVMwareESXServer,VirtualCenter,andtheVirtualInfrastructure
Clients.
2ToviewallthevirtualmachinesintheVMwareInfrastructureenvironment,doeitherofthefollowing:
ExtendtheVMwareInfrastructureenvironmentgrouptoincludetheenvironment.
Viewtheenvironmentthroughthemap(Discover>Map)ortheinventory(Discover>Inventory).
Chapter 4containsmoreinformationongroups.