VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1.1 Administration Manual page 10

Application Discovery Manager Administration Guide
Table 1-1. ADM Components
Component
Active Discovery‐ UNIX
Active Discovery‐ Windows
Passive Discovery
Aggregator
Database
Single-Box Appliance
In a Single‐Box appliance solution architecture, the ADM components are enabled on a single Virtual
Appliance (VA) as shown in Figure
Figure 1-2. Single-Box Appliance Architecture
ADM VM2
Role=Windows collector
(running Win2008
on any ESX)
Active Discovery-
Windows
Physical Physical
switch 1 switch 2
Chapter 3 provides the configuration instructions.
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Description
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.
A discovery engine that uses WMI based discovery policies for performing active
discovery on Windows machines.
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.
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.
An Oracle RDBMS used for storing discovered data and ADM configuration.
1‐2.
ESX1
vSwitch
ADM VM1
Role = single-box
Aggregator
Database
Active Discovery-
Unix
Passive
Discovery
Runs on (Virtualization)
Logical monitoring
port connectivity
ADM Connectivity
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