6.1
Table Of Contents
- Application Discovery Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Overview
- Installing ADM
- Setting Up ADM
- Securing ADM
- Maintenance
- Upgrading ADM
- Migrating to a New Appliance
- Troubleshooting ADM
- Uninstalling ADM
- Time Zones
- ADM API Tutorial
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ThischapterdescribesthedifferentVMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManager(ADM)architecture
solutionsandconfiguration.Topicsinclude:
“SystemArchitecture”onpage 9
“VirtualandPhysicalApplianceSolutions”onpage 12
“vCollector”onpage 13
“MixedEnvironment”onpage 13
“WhereToGoNext”onpage 14
System Architecture
TheADMprovidessystemarchitecturesolutionstomeettherequirementsofdifferentenvironmentsas
showninFigure 1‐1.
Figure 1-1. ADM Components
VMwareprovidesADMononeormoreappliances.Themodeoftheappliancedetermineswhichcomponent
isrunning.ADMcomponentsaredescribedinTable 1‐1.
Overview
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AggregatorDatabase
Active
Discovery-Unix
Active
Discovery-Windows
Passive
Discovery
Table 1-1. ADM Components
Component Description
ActiveDiscovery‐
UNIX
Collectsdatafromtheconfigurationobjectsinyourdatacenter.Thefollowingdiscoverytypesapply:
IP discovery—AmethodfordetectinghostsorotherconfigurationitemswithaspecificIPaddress
whenPassiveDiscoveryfailstodiscoverthem.
Detaildiscovery—ExtendstheinformationobtainedusingPassiveandIPDiscovery.Itusescommon
networkprotocolstoremotelyqueryserversinthemanagednetworkandobtainssupplementary
informationaboutnetworkhostswhichisaddedtothedatabase.
ActiveDiscovery‐
Windows
AdiscoveryenginethatusesWMIbaseddiscoverypoliciesforperforming
activediscoveryonWindows
machines.