Adm Components; Active Probe - VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1.1 User Manual

ADM Components

VMware provides ADM on one or more appliances. The mode of the appliance determines which component
is running. ADM components are described in Table
Table 1-2. ADM Components
Component
Active Discovery‐
Unix
Active Discovery‐
Windows
Passive Discovery
Aggregator
Database

Active Probe

The active probe is the ADM process used for both Detail and IP discovery. Active probe responds to the
policies defined through the management component, discovers the items assigned through the policies, and
returns the data to the management component. This data is reconciled, stored, and presented in the console.
To configure the active probe
1 Assign discovery items to a specific Collector.
2 Define the protocols that are supported for discovery.
3 Connect the management component (Aggregator) to the discovery component (Collector).
The VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager Administration Guide includes the steps for configuring the
active probe for Detail and IP discovery.
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Description
Collects data from the configuration objects in your data center. The following discovery types
apply:

IP discovery: Detects 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 that 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.
Passive discovery also allows you to do the following:

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 to store discovered data and ADM configuration.
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