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ADM User’s Guide10 VMware, Inc.  WherearethehiddenoptimizationopportunitiesandhowcanIcapitalizeonthem? Howwilltheseapplicationchange

VMware, Inc. 11Chapter 1 Architecture Overview ADM ComponentsVMwareprovidesADMononeormoreappliances.Themodeoftheappliancedetermineswhich

ADM User’s Guide12 VMware, Inc. ADM Architecture SolutionsADMprovidesaSingle‐BoxsetupandDistributedsetuptomeettheneedsofdifferentenviron

VMware, Inc. 13Chapter 1 Architecture Overview Figure 1-2. Distributed Setup ArchitectureDistributed Appliance with Remote Database SolutionInaDist

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VMware, Inc. 15 2ThischapterdescribesaccessingtheADMconsole.Topicsinclude: “A c c e s s i n g theADMConsole”onpage 15 “LogIntotheAD

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VMware, Inc. 17 3ThischapterdescribestheManagetabthatenablesyoutocreate,edit,anddeletegroups,policies,fingerprints,andusers.Youcan

ADM User’s Guide18 VMware, Inc. Application PatternsADMdiscoversbusinessapplicationsbycreatingapplicationpatterns.Anapplicationpatterndefin

VMware, Inc. 19Chapter 3 Managing ADM  EnablePolicy:Enablesachangetrackingpolicy. DisablePolicy:Disablesachangetrackingpolicy.TheVMware

VMware, Inc.3401 Hillview Ave.Palo Alto, CA 94304www.vmware.com2 VMware, Inc.ADM User’s Guide You can find the most up-to-date technical documentation

ADM User’s Guide20 VMware, Inc. YoucanperformthefollowingactionsfromtheActionspaneontheleftsideofthescreen: AddFingerprint:Creates

VMware, Inc. 21Chapter 3 Managing ADM Deleting Aging LogsTodeletetheaginglogs,navigatetoManage>SystemandthenclickDeleteAllAgingLogs

ADM User’s Guide22 VMware, Inc. TheVMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManagerOnlineHelpprovidesstep‐by‐stepinstructionsonhowtoenablerole‐

VMware, Inc. 23Chapter 3 Managing ADM Upload a LicenseAnewlyinstalledADMsetupisnotlicensedbydefault.Beforeyoubegin,obtainthelicensefro

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VMware, Inc. 25 4ThischapterdiscussesgroupsinADM.Topicsinclude: “Overview”onpage 25 “Built‐InGroups”onpage 26 “User‐DefinedGroups”on

ADM User’s Guide26 VMware, Inc. RequirementsOtherthanbeinganadminuser,groupcreationhasnootherprerequisites.Nopassiveordetaildiscovery

VMware, Inc. 27Chapter 4 Groups Figure 4-1. ADM GroupNOTESinceyouhavetoselectaprimaryobjecttocreatearule,youcancreaterulesfordiff

ADM User’s Guide28 VMware, Inc. Table 4-1. Group Definition Parameters for Each Primary ObjectPrimary Object ParametersHost Basic: allhostsinsco

VMware, Inc. 29Chapter 4 Groups Whenyouselectaparameter,itappearsintheRuleEditorandbecomesahyperlink.Whenyouclickthehyperlink,you

VMware, Inc. 3 ContentsContents 3AboutThisBook 71 ArchitectureOverview 9WhatDoesADMDo? 9EssentialConcepts 10ADMComponents 11ActiveProbe 11ADM

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VMware, Inc. 31 5ThischapterdescribestheDiscoveryfunctionalityandconfiguration.Topicsinclude: “DiscoveryTypes”onpage 31 “PassiveDiscove

ADM User’s Guide32 VMware, Inc. Discovery PlansAdiscoveryplanhelpsyoutocontrolthedepthofinformationdiscovered.Forexample,softwarechange

VMware, Inc. 33Chapter 5 Discovery PoliciesTo create IP Discovery policy1ClickAddPolicyontheIPDiscoveryPoliciespage.2Typethenameoftheplan

ADM User’s Guide34 VMware, Inc.  CollectorsStatus DetailDiscoveryRate DetailDiscoveryDistributionbyPolicyPlansYoucancreateDetailDiscover

VMware, Inc. 35Chapter 5 Discovery Discovery ResultsTheDetailDiscovery>DiscoveryResultspagedisplaysthelatestdetaildiscoveryresultsand

ADM User’s Guide36 VMware, Inc. Troubleshooting KnowledgebaseNavigatetoDetailDiscovery>TroubleshootingKnowledgebasepagefortroubleshooting

VMware, Inc. 37Chapter 5 Discovery  Protocol‐specificauthenticationandcommunicationparameters,suchasusernamesandpasswordstouseforauthent

ADM User’s Guide38 VMware, Inc. 6Listener(passive)7IPDiscovery(passive)SSHSecureShell(SSH)isastandardprotocolforsecureremoteaccesstoUNI

VMware, Inc. 39Chapter 5 Discovery Asimilarscenariomightalsooccurwithothertypesofservers,dependingonhowtheyareinstalled.However,ofte

ADM User’s Guide4 VMware, Inc. Policies 33DetailDiscovery 33DetailDiscoveryTab 33DeployingDetailDiscovery 36DetailDiscoveryConfiguration 36How

ADM User’s Guide40 VMware, Inc. Solaris and HP-UXSolarisandHP‐UXsystemsdonotincludebuilt‐inSNMPagents.YoucandownloadandinstallNet‐SNMP

VMware, Inc. 41Chapter 5 Discovery WMI Deployment RecommendationsFollowingaretheWMIdeploymentrecommendations.Creating a User for WMI Detail Disco

ADM User’s Guide42 VMware, Inc. To enable DCOM for a host running Windows XP or Windows 20031Logintothehostasadminuser(eitheralocaladminist

VMware, Inc. 43Chapter 5 Discovery 8ClickOKtoreturntotheSecurityforRootwindow.9EnsurethatthenewlyaddedusernameishighlightedintheG

ADM User’s Guide44 VMware, Inc. CredentialsAswithSSH,DetailDiscoverywithTelnetisbasedonaccessingthemanagedhostwithausernameandpassw

VMware, Inc. 45Chapter 5 Discovery To change this behavior for operating as a local user1FromtheWindowsStartmenu,navigatetoSetting>Control

ADM User’s Guide46 VMware, Inc. LimitationsVI‐SDKdoesnotexposesomeinformationandthereforeADMcannotdiscoversomeCIs.Specifically,thefollo

VMware, Inc. 47Chapter 5 Discovery Choosing a Method of Dependency DiscoveryTable 5‐3outlinesthe differencesintheinformationthatarediscovered

ADM User’s Guide48 VMware, Inc. Discovery Strategy for Using Only Detail Discovery for DependenciesHereisonesuggestedstrategytousewhencreating

VMware, Inc. 49Chapter 5 Discovery VMware DiscoveryVMwareproductssuchasESXServerareusedtocreatethevirtualmachinesintheformofasetof

VMware, Inc. 5Contents CompleteSynchronize 68DisplayingADMdatainSAM 68CustomReports 709 Solver 71Overview 71ReportsintheSolverTab 71Index 73

ADM User’s Guide50 VMware, Inc. Use CaseThefollowingusecasedescribesthetypicalflowforpassiveanddetaildiscoveryofaVMwareenvironment.Ass

VMware, Inc. 51Chapter 5 Discovery VMware Infrastructure Discovery FlowTable 5‐5describesthetypicalflowforVMwareInfrastructurediscovery.Using

ADM User’s Guide52 VMware, Inc. CapabilitiesOnceaVMwareenvironmentisdiscovered,youcanperformseveralfunctions.Viewing Virtualization Dependen

VMware, Inc. 53Chapter 5 Discovery Flow 2: Virtualized Environment to FoundationTo view your VMware environment1 Createagroupthatcontainsallthe

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VMware, Inc. 55 6Thischapterdescribeshowtocreateapplicationpatterndefinitionsandviewtheresultsasapplicationpatterninstances.Topicsin

ADM User’s Guide56 VMware, Inc. Noderulesidentifytheendpointsoftheapplicationpattern.Therearetwotypesofnoderules: “MandatoryNodeRule

VMware, Inc. 57Chapter 6 Application Patterns Figure 6‐4showsanapplicationpatterndefinitionthatcontainsbothmandatoryandoptionalelements.Fi

ADM User’s Guide58 VMware, Inc. Figure 6-6. Similar Instances Are Identified as One Instance With UnificationApplication Pattern InstancesADManalyze

VMware, Inc. 59Chapter 6 Application Patterns Clickthecolumnheadingtosortthelistbythatcolumn.YoucanperformthefollowingactionswithAppl

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ADM User’s Guide60 VMware, Inc. Application Pattern InstancesTheApplicationPatternInstancesListcontainstheapplicationpatterninstancecreated

VMware, Inc. 61Chapter 6 Application Patterns Application Discovery ProcessFigure 6‐7showsahigh‐leveloverviewoftheprocesstocreateapplication

ADM User’s Guide62 VMware, Inc. Step 2: Discover All Instances That Match the DefinitionThediscoveryprocessrunsthefirsttimeanapplicationpatte

VMware, Inc. 63 7ThischapterdescribestheReporttabinADM.Topicsinclude: “Reporttypes”onpage 63 “ExportingandPrintingReports”onpage 64

ADM User’s Guide64 VMware, Inc. Exporting and Printing ReportsOnceareportisgenerated,youcanexportandprintit.Theexportchoicesareasfollo

VMware, Inc. 65 8ThischapterdescribestheConnectorstabthatenablesyoutointegrateADMwithotherapplications.Topicsinclude: “ConnectorsOve

ADM User’s Guide66 VMware, Inc. To view the ADM and SAM Integration screens1FromtheADMConsole,clickConnectorstab.2ClickEMCSmartstoviewtheS

VMware, Inc. 67Chapter 8 Connectors UseyourWebbrowserRefreshoptiontoupdatetheADM‐SmartsIntegrationStatusscreeninformation.ClickStatusin

ADM User’s Guide68 VMware, Inc. LogClickLogintheADMConsoleleftpanetoviewthelogsfortheADM‐Smartsintegration.Thelogfilesaredisplayed

VMware, Inc. 69Chapter 8 Connectors 4FromtheleftpaneoftheMapConsoleopentheADMSoftwareRequestfolder.5 Selectanitem.Thegraphicalrepresen

VMware, Inc. 7 TheVMwarevCenter™ApplicationDiscoveryManager(ADM)User’sGuidedescribestheuserinterfaceoftheADM.Italsoprovidesinformat

ADM User’s Guide70 VMware, Inc. Editing the ADMLIC.sh FileInSolaris9andSolaris10,theMozillabrowserreplacedtheNetscapebrowser.Becauseoft

VMware, Inc. 71 9ThischapterdescribestheSolvertabthatallowsyouto generateusefulreportsandtohelpyousolveimportantbusinessinitiative

ADM User’s Guide72 VMware, Inc. ApplicationconsolidationBeforerunninganapplicationconsolidationinitiative,usethissolutiontoidentifyapplica

VMware, Inc. 73 IndexAADM, architecture solutions 12Aging 20All-in-one appliance solution 12Application discovery process 61Application Pattern Finger

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ADM User’s Guide8 VMware, Inc. VMware Professional ServicesVMwareEducationServicescoursesofferextensivehands‐onlabs,casestudyexamples,andc

VMware, Inc. 9 1TheVMwarevCenter™ApplicationDiscoveryManager(ADM)isanenterprisedatacentermanagementsolutionthatusesagentlessdiscovery