7.0

Application Discovery Manager Administration Guide
10 VMware, Inc.
Single-Box Appliance with Remote Database
InaSingle‐BoxappliancewithRemoteDatabasesolution,theADMcomponentsareenabledonasingle
virtualappliance.Also,adesignatedappliancehoststhedatabase.
Figure 1-2. Single-Box Appliance with Remote Database Architecture
Table 1-1. ADM Components
Component Description
ActiveDiscovery‐UNIX Collectsdatafromtheconfigurationobjectsinyourdatacenter.Thefollowingdiscovery
typesapply:
 IPdiscovery:Amethodfordetectinghostsorotherconfigurationitemswitha
specificIPaddresswhenPassiveDiscoveryfailstodiscoverthem.
 Detaildiscovery:ExtendstheinformationobtainedusingPassiveandIPDiscovery.
Itusescommonnetworkprotocolstoremotelyqueryserversinthemanaged
networkandobtainssupplementaryinformationaboutnetworkhostswhichis
addedtothedatabase.
ActiveDiscovery‐Windows AdiscoveryenginethatusesWMIbaseddiscoverypoliciesforperformingactive
discoveryonWindowsmachines.
PassiveDiscovery Passivelyobservesthenetworktrafficbyperformingadeep‐packetanalysistodiscover
applicationsandcomponentrelationshipsinphysicalandvirtualenvironments.
Italsoallowsyouto:
 Mapdependencies.
 Counttheactivityofthesedependencies.
 Identifyservices.
Aggregator Receivesdatafromthediscoverycomponentsandreconcilesthedatabeforetransferring
ittothedatabasecomponent.Theaggregatoralsoprovidestheuserinterfaceforusing
ADMandistheintegrationpointforvariousintegrations,forexample,ERDB.
Database AnOracleRDBMSusedforstoringdiscovereddataandADMconfiguration.
ADM
7.0doesnothaveOracledatabaseintegrated.Youneedtoconfigu reyourown
externalOracledatabaseasdescribedin“SettingUpOracleasanExternalDatabasefor
ADM”onpage 21.
ESX1
ADM VM2
Active Discovery-
Windows
Runs on (Virtualization)
Logical monitoring
port connectivity
ADM Connectivity
Physical
switch 2
Physical
switch 1
Active Discovery-
Unix
Database
Oracle as an
external database
Aggregator
Passive
Discovery
vSwitch
ADM VM1
Role = single-box
Role=Windows collector
(running Win2008
on any ESX)