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
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ThischapterdescribestheConnectorstabthatenablesyoutointegrateADMwithotherapplications.Topics
include:
“ConnectorsOverview”onpage 65
“EMCSmartsIntegration”onpage 65
“CustomReports”onpage 70
Connectors Overview
TheConnectorstabenablesyoutointegrateADMwithotherapplications,ifyouhavetheminstalled.You
mustalsohavealicenseforthem.IntegrationbetweenADMandotherapplicationsallowsdetailed
informationtobediscoveredandpopulatedintotheotherapplication.
Informationabouthosts,routers,switches,services,andconnectionsare
transferredbetweenapplications.For
example,youmightwanttousethenetworkdevicesfromEMCSmartsServiceAssuranceManager(SAM)
withtheapplicationsfromADM.InformationaboutADMcouldbecollectedanddisplayedintheSAM.
ToviewtheintegrationscreenfromtheADMConsole,clickConnectorstab.Dependingonthe
applications
youhaveinstalledandlicensed,youseethefollowingtabs:
EMCSmarts
Reports
TheVMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManagerOnlineHelpprovidesspecificdetailsandsteps.
EMC Smarts Integration
IntegrationbetweentheADMandtheSAMallowsthedetailedinformationcollectedbytheADMtobe
populatedintotheSAM.
Connectors
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NOTETheintegrationsoftwarerequiresalicensetoworkwithADM.ContactyourCustomerSales
Representativeforinformationonpurchasingalicense.
NOTEBeforeADMdatacanappearinSAM,youmustverifythattheics.conffilehasbeeneditedtospecify
thatthedataistoflowfromtheSAMAdapterPlatformtotheSAM.Thesection“DefiningDomain
Parameters”intheEMCSmartsServiceAssuranceManagerConfigurationGuideprovidesdetailedinformation
oneditingtheics.conffile.Onceallintegrationstepsarecomplete,theADMdataisviewedusingthe
Smarts,LaunchinContextfeature.