6.1
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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Chapter 1 Architecture Overview
Active Probe
TheactiveprobeistheADMprocessusedforbothDetailandIPdiscovery.Activeproberespondstothe
policiesdefinedthroughthemanagementcomponent,discoverstheitemsassignedthroughthepolicies,and
returnsthedatatothemanagementcomponent.Thisdataisreconciled,stored,andpresentedintheconsole.
To configure the active probe
1Assign
discoveryitemstoaspecificCollector.
2Definetheprotocolsthataresupportedfordiscovery.
3 Connectthemanagementcomponent(Aggregator)tothediscoverycomponent(Collector).
TheVMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManagerAdministrationGuideincludesthestepsforconfiguringthe
activeprobeforDetailandIPdiscovery.
Architecture Solutions
ADMprovidesaSingle‐boxsetupandDistributedsetuptomeettheneedsofdifferentenvironments.The
followingsectionscontainmoreinformationaboutthearchitecturesolutions.
Single-box Setup
InaSingle‐boxsetup,alltheADMmodesareenabledonasingleapplianceasshowninFigure 1‐1.
Table 1-2. ADM Components
Component Description
ActiveDiscovery‐
Unix
Collectsdatafromtheconfigurationobjectsinyourdatacenter.Thefollowingdiscoverytypes
apply:
IPdiscovery—DetectshostsorotherconfigurationitemswithaspecificIPaddresswhen
passivediscoveryfailstodiscoverthem.
Detaildiscovery—ExtendstheinformationobtainedusingpassiveandIPdiscovery.Ituses
commonnetworkprotocolstoremotelyqueryserversinthemanagednetworkandobtains
supplementaryinformationaboutnetworkhoststhatisaddedtothedatabase.
ActiveDiscovery‐
Windows
AdiscoveryenginethatusesWMIbaseddiscoverypoliciesforperforming
activediscoveryon
Windowsmachines.
PassiveDiscovery Passivelyobservesthenetworktrafficbyperformingadeep‐packetanalysistodiscover
applicationsandcomponentrelationshipsinphysicalandvirtualenvironments.
Passivediscoveryalsoallowsyoutodothefollowing:
Mapdependencies.
Counttheactivityofthesedependencies.
Identifyservices.
Aggregator Receivesdatafromthediscoverycomponentsandreconcilesthedatabeforetransferringittothe
databasecomponent.TheaggregatoralsoprovidestheuserinterfaceforusingADMandisthe
integrationpointforvariousintegrations,forexample,ERDB.
Database AnOracleRDBMSusedtostorediscovereddataandADMconfiguration.