About This Book - VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1 - REPOSITORY Reference Manual

About This Book

The VMware vCenter™ Application Discovery Manager (ADM) Repository Reference Guide provides
information about setting up and configuring the ADM external repository. It describes the table structure and
dependencies within the ADM external database and also illustrates the tables. To help you with the custom
reports, the book provides examples of reports that can be generated from the ADM external database.
Intended Audience
This document is part of the VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager documentation set, and is
intended for use by corporate Information Technology (IT) personnel who need to monitor enterprise
applications and resources and make decisions about acquiring, allocating, and modifying these resources.
Readers of this guide are expected to be familiar with these topics:
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Oracle database
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SQL
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