7.0
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
- Index
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Chapter 1 Overview
Distributed Appliance with Remote Database
ADistributedAppliancewithRemoteDatabasesolution,oneapplianceenabledasanAggregatoralongwith
oneormoreappliancesenabledascollector.PassiveandDetailDiscoverycanrunonsingleormultiple
Collectors.Also,adesignatedappliancehoststhedatabase.
Figure 1-3. Distributed Appliance with Remote Database Architecture
Virtual Appliance Solution
YoucansetupADMonyourESXorESXiserversasdescribedin“VirtualApplianceDeployment”onpage 11.
YoucanalsosetupADMonanexistingIBMphysicalappliancesbutonlyupgradingissupportedasdescribed
in“UpgradingADM”onpage 13.
Virtual Appliance Deployment
ADMversion7.0.0isdeliveredasVA,whichisavirtualmachineimagethatincludesanoperatingsystemand
therelevantADMsoftwarecomponentsinstalledonit.AVAcanrunoneormultipleADMcomponents
dependingontheapplianceroleselected.
DeployingavirtualmachinetemplateinanOpenVirtualization
Format(OVF)ontotheESXorESXiserver
createsanADMvirtualappliance.Afterdeployment,poweruptheVAandthenconfigurethestandard
appliancesettings,network,anduserinformation.
N
OTEADM7.0doesnothaveOracledatabaseintegrated.YouneedtoconfigureanexternalOracledatabase
asdescribedin“SettingUpOracleasanExternalDatabaseforADM”onpage 21.
ESX1
ADM VM4
Active Discovery-
Windows
vSwitch
Role = Windows
Collector
(running Win2008
on any ESX)
Runs on (Virtualization)
Logical monitoring
port connectivity
ADM Connectivity
Physical
switch 2
Physical
switch 1
Aggregator
ADM VM1
Role = Aggregator
Database
ADM VM3
Passive
Discovery
vSwitch
Role = Passive
Collector
ESX4
Oracle as an
external database
ADM VM2
vSwitch
Role = Collector
ESX2
Active Discovery-
Unix
Passive
Discovery
ESX3