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
ADM User’s Guide
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CollectorsStatus
DetailDiscoveryRate
DetailDiscoveryDistributionbyPolicy
Plans
YoucancreateDetailDiscoveryplansfromtheDetailDiscovery>Planspage.Thispagedisplaysalistof
detaildiscoveryplans,includingthreebuilt‐inplans:
Shallow—Discoversoperatingsystemsandnetworkconfiguration.
Medium—Discoverseverything(OS,hardware,software)exceptservicesandnetworkconnections.
Deep—Discoverseverything,exceptnetworkconnections.
Detaildiscoveryplansareusefulwhenyouwanttoincludeorexcludethedetaildiscoveryofcertainhosts,
services,orconnections.NavigatetoDetailDiscovery>Plans>AddDiscoveryPlantocreateyourownplan.
Scenariosinwhichyoumightwanttocreate
adetaildiscoveryplanareasfollows:
Thesoftwareinyourenvironmentchangesfrequentlyandthehardwarehardlychanges.ForDetail
Discovery,youwantsoftwarediscovereddaily,buthardwareinformationisdiscoveredonlyonceaweek.
YouwanttoexcludetheDetailDiscoveryofhostswithspecifichostnamesoroperatingsystems.
TheDiscoveryPlanDefinitionscreenisshownbelow.
Policies
YoucaninitiateDetailDiscoveryaftercreatingaDetailDiscoveryPolicyfromtheDetailDiscovery>Policies
page.Tomaximizesecurityandminimizetheriskofimpactonthemanagednetwork,onlyadminuserscontrol
thesetupandschedulingofdetaildiscoverypolicies.
DetailDiscoverypoliciesdescribeaquerythatruns
periodicallytocollectnetworkinformation.Eachpolicy
definesthefollowingparameters:
Theprotocoltouse(SNMP,SSH,Telnet,WMI,orVI‐SDK),aswellastheauthenticationparameters
requiredforthespecifiedprotocol
Ascheduleforrunningthepolicy
Thescope(anamedgrouporIPaddressrange)ofhoststoquery
I
MPORTANTTheDetailDiscoverytabisvisibleonlytotheadminuser.
N
OTEEveryDetailDiscoverypolicyhasaplanassociatedwithit.DeepisthedefaultdiscoveryplanforDetail
Discoverypolicies.ChangestoadiscoveryplanareeffectivethenexttimetheCIswithinthepolicyscopeare
discovered.