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Chapter 1 Overview
CollectorADMTemplate—AsmallerOVFtemplatethatincludesthePassiveCollectorandActiveand
PassiveCollectorandyoucanconfigureaspassiveandactivediscoveryCollectorandPassiveDiscovery
Collector.
WindowsCollectorInstaller—AnexecutablefilethatinstallstheWindowsCollectorcomponentontop
oftheWindows2008R2operatingsystems.
Physical Appliance Deployment
ADMsupportstheupgradingofexistingIBMsingleboxandDistributedsolutions(includingthosethatuse
aremotedatabase).
Mirrored Network Traffic
Themethodinwhichtheapplianceperformspassivediscoveryisbyanalyzingmirroredtrafficfromaswitch
orrouter.Networkdevicesthathavetheabilitytoconfigureamirroredport(sometimescalledasaSwitched
PortAnalyzer,spanportormonitorport)canforwardacopyofallthenetworktraffic
fromall(orselected)
portstooneormoremirroredports.Typically ,eachnetworkdevicehasallitsportsmirroredtooneport.These
mirroredportsarethenconnecteddirectlytooneofthenetworkinterfacesontheESXserver.
Performoneofthefollowingstepsifyouhaveto
connectmultiplemonitorports:
Connectthemonitorportstoanaggregateswitch(A‐Switch),whichisalsoconfiguredwithamonitor
port.PlugthemirroredportoftheA‐SwitchintotheESXservernetworkinterface.
ContactyourVMwareSalesRepresentativeifyourequireanA‐Switch.
AddfewmorenetworkinterfacestoESXserver.
InstallanotherADMPassiveCollectoronadifferentESXserver.
vCollector
TheADMusesavirtualcollector(vCollector)tolistentocommunicationbetweenvirtualmachinesthatrun
onthesameVMwareESXServer.AvCollectorispresentinsideavirtualmachineanditslistenercollectsthe
informationaboutthevirtualmachinesdeployedontheESXServer.BydeployingavCollector,theADM
is
abletopassivelydiscoverdependenciesinavirtualizedenvironment.Youcanthenviewinformationabout
thevirtualmachinesthataredeployedonthesameESXServerincluding:
Dependencymapsbetweenvirtualmachines.
Activitycountsofthedependencies.
Servicesrunningonthevirtualmachines.
Additionalinformationthatisofferedbythelistener.
Mixed Environment
TheADM6.1releaseintroducesADMasavirtualappliance,butitalsosupportsupgradingfrom6.0ona
physicalIBMappliances.Youcanupgradeyourphysicalenvironmentwithadditionalvirtual6.1appliances
likemixedenvironment.ThisadditionalvirtualappliancecanplayaroleofPassiveCollectors(vCollectors)
oranadditional
PassiveandActiveCollectors.
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MPORTANTConsultITprofessionalsofyourorganizationtoensurethattheappropriateswitchesorrouters
thatcontainsthenetworktrafficisusedforDiscoveryareconfiguredproperlyforportmirroringandare
accessibletotheADMappliance.
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OTETheADMPassiveCollectorcanworkwithmaximumofthreemonitorports.Ifyouhavetoconnect
morethanthreemonitorports,youmustaddanotherADMPassiveCollector.