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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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ThischapterdescribesthenecessaryconceptsandprocedurestomaintainanADMdeployment.Thischapter
includesthefollowingtopics:
“A D M Services”onpage 39
“ProductSupportPackages”onpage 40
“RestoringanADMEnvironmentbyUsingaProductSupportPackage”onpage 42
“Licenses”onpage 45
ADM Services
Table 5‐1describesthemainADMservices.
Managing Services with adm_control
ADMprovidestheadm_control.plscripttostart,stop,andmonitorADMservices.Youcanstartorstopany
service,butifyoustopanyservicealldependentservicesarestoppedasaresult.Alldependentservicesis
listedduringthestopprocess.Table 5‐2listsanddescribesthecommandsforthe
ADMservices.
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Table 5-1. ADM Services
Service name Description
apache Webserverservice.
active_probe ServiceresponsibleforperformingDetailDiscoveryandrunsonLinuxCollectorsandtheWindows
virtualmachine.Thisserviceperforms:
WMI‐baseddiscoveryontheWindowsCollector
SSH‐,SNMP‐,VI‐SDK‐,andTelnet‐baseddiscoveryontheUNIXCollector
engine ThecoreofADMandincludesthefollowingcomponents:
Userinterface
Management
Reconciliations
Analytic
listener ServiceresponsibleforthePassiveDiscoverymechanisms.
vnc PhysicalIBMCollectorsonly.
ThevncserviceenablesVNCaccesstotheWindowsinstancesothattheIPaddresscanbeconfigured.
vmware PhysicalIBMCollectorsonly.
TheWindowsinstanceontheapplianceisinstalledonavirtualmachine.Thevmwareservicestarts
VMwaresothat
theWindowsinstancecanstart.
watchdog Servicethatmonitorsthehealthoftheotherservices.Ifanotherservicehasaproblem,watchdog
servicetriestoidentifytheserviceandresolvetheproblem.