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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Editing the ADMLIC.sh File
InSolaris9andSolaris10,theMozillabrowserreplacedtheNetscapebrowser.Becauseofthischange,the
ADMLIC.shfilemustbeeditedtoconfigurethelocationofthebrowserofyourchoice.
To edit the ADMLIC.sh file
1OpentheADMLIC.shfileusingatexteditor.
2 Locatethefollowingsection:
# ==========| Customize only until next dashed line |==============
# ---------------------------------------
### Required:
# Some typical browser locations
# /usr/dt/bin/netscape (Solaris)
# /opt/netscape/netscape (HPUX)
# /usr/bin/mozilla (Linux)
BROWSER=/usr/sfw/bin/mozilla
# --------------------
# =====================| End Customizations |======================
# ----------------------
3EditthepathforthebrowserrunningonaSolarishost.
Forexample,BROWSER=/usr/sfw/bin/mozilla
4 SavethefiletotheBASEDIR/smarts/actions/client/ADMdirectory.
Custom Reports
Inadditiontostandardreports,ADMprovidesfunctionalityforcreatingcustomreports.Tocreatecustom
reports,anexternaldatabasemustbeinstalledandconfigured.Oncetheexternaldatabaseissynchronized
withtheADMdatabase,youcancreatecustomqueriestocollectdataandgeneratecustomreports.The
VMwarevCenterApplicationDiscovery
ManagerRepositoryReferenceGuideprovidesinformationaboutsettingup
andconfiguringtheADMexternaldatabase.Tohelpyouwiththecustomreports,italsoprovidesexamples
ofreportsthatcanbegeneratedfromtheADMexternaldatabase.