6.2.1
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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ThischapterdescribestheDiscoveryfunctionalityandconfiguration.Topicsinclude:
“DiscoveryTypes”onpage 31
“PassiveDiscovery”onpage 32
“IPDiscovery”onpage 32
“DetailDiscovery”onpage 33
“DeployingDetailDiscovery”onpage 36
“DetailDiscoveryProtocols”onpage 37
“DiscoveringDependencieswithDetailDiscovery”onpage 46
“VMwareDiscovery”onpage 49
Discovery Types
DiscoveryistheprocessofpopulatingADMʹsmanagementdatarepositorywithCIsandidentifyingthe
relationshipsbetweenthem.ADMoffersthreetypesofdiscoveries:PassiveDiscovery,IPDiscovery,and
DetailDiscovery.Table 5‐1defineseachdiscoverytype.
Theconfigurationitemdetails(allhardwareandsoftwareconfigurationinformation)thatarediscovered
throughthesethreediscoverymethodsaredisplayedontheDiscover>Inventorypage.Clickingonahost,
service,ordevicewilldisplayitsproperties.
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Table 5-1. Types of Discovery
Discovery Types Definition
PassiveDiscovery PassiveDiscoveryistheprocessinwhichnetworktrafficislistenedtopassively.Passive
Discoveryisanon‐intrusiveprocesswhereyoucanspecifyanIPrangetosearchfor
hostsandapplications.
IPDiscovery IPDiscoveryistheprocessthatdiscovershostsorotherdeviceswithaspecificIP
address
whenpassivediscoveryfailstodiscoverthem.AnICMP,Nmap,orTCP
connectionscandetectsdevicesthatareactivebutarenotsourcesordestinationsof
networktraffic,suchasswitchesorrouters.TheIPscandiscoversthedevicesandadds
themtotheinventorylist.YoucancreateIP
discoverypoliciesandsetthemtorun
periodically.
DetailDiscovery DetailDiscoveryistheprocessthatprovidesthegranulardetailsofhostsandservices
(suchasOSinformation,theinstalledsoftwarelist,disksize,configurationfilesettings,
andsoon)thatarenotavailablewithpassivediscovery.