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VMWARE VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1 - REPOSITORY Administration Manual

VMWARE VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1 - REPOSITORY Administration Manual (64 pages)

Brand: VMWARE | Category: Software | Size: 0.73 MB

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
3
About this Book
7
1 Overview

9
- System Architecture
  9
  - Single-Box Appliance
    11
  - Distributed Appliance Solutions
    11
  - Virtual and Physical Appliance Solutions
    12
    
    Virtual Appliance Deployment
    12
    
    Mirrored Network Traffic
    13
    
    Physical Appliance Deployment
    13
  - Vcollector
    13
  - Mixed Environment
    13
  - Where to Go Next
    14
    
    Installation of New or Additional ADM Components
    14
    
    Licenses
    14
    
    Migrating to a New Appliance
    14
    
    Security
    14
    
    Upgrading ADM
    14
2 Installing ADM

15
- ADM Installation Requirements
  15
  - Installation Personnel
    15
  - ESX Resources
    15
  - Installing the Vsphere Client
    16
  - Disabling Vmotion
    16
  - Preparing the Environment
    16
    
    Preparing an ESX Configuration
    16
    
    Configuring the Vswitch for Passive Collector
    17
    
    Configuring the Vswitch General Settings for Passive Discovery
    17
    
    Creating a New Vswitch for Passive Discovery
    17
    
    Configuring Dvswitch for Passive Collector
    18
  - Deploying the Virtual Appliances
    18
    
    Deploying the ADM Virtual Appliances
    18
    
    Before You Begin
    19
    
    Deployment Procedure
    19
  - Installing Windows Collector
    20
    
    Before You Begin
    20
    
    Deployment
    20
    
    Uninstall
    21
3 Setting up ADM

23
- Process
  23
4 Securing ADM

29
5 Maintenance

33
- ADM Services
  33
6 Upgrading ADM

41
- Overview
  41
  - Appliance Type
    41
  - Mixed Environments
    41
  - Licenses
    41
  - Appliance Migration
    41
  - Backing up Data
    41
  - Upgrading Appliances
    42
    
    Important Notes
    42
    
    Preliminary Procedures
    42
    
    Upgrading Appliances Using CLI
    42
  - Post-Upgrade Steps
    43
7 Migrating to a New Appliance

45
- Overview
  45
  - Supported Migration
    45
  - Licenses
    45
  - System Architecture
    45
  - Process
    46
  - Preliminary Procedures
    46
    
    Backing up Winape Migration Files
    46
    
    Restoring Winape Migration Files
    47
  - Data Restoration
    47
    
    Aggregator
    47
    
    Collectors
    47
    
    Distributed Solutions
    47
    
    Single-Box-Solution
    47
    
    Winape
    47
    
    Aggregator
    48
    
    Collectors
    48
    
    Database
    48
    
    Distributed Solution with Remote Database
    48
    
    Winape
    48
  - Post-Migration Steps
    48
8 Troubleshooting ADM

49
- Troubleshooting the ADM by Using the Product Support Package
  49
- Detail Discovery Troubleshooting
  49
  - Wmi
    49
  - Single.sh
    49
    
    Location
    50
    
    Usage
    50
    
    Examples
    51
    
    Location
    52
    
    Snmpdump
    52
    
    Usage
    52
    
    Examples
    53
    
    Location
    53
    
    Nlcapture
    53
    
    Usage
    53
9 Uninstalling ADM

55
- Uninstalling the ADM Appliance
  55
Time Zones

57
ADM API Tutorial

59
- API Features
  59
  - Insight_Control
    59
  - Asynch API
    60
  - Dump API
    60
  - Bulk API
    61
  - Web Services API
    61
- Index
  63

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VMWARE VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1 - REPOSITORY User Manual

VMWARE VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1 - REPOSITORY User Manual (74 pages)

Brand: VMWARE | Category: Software | Size: 2.13 MB

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
3
Contents
3
About this Book
7
1 Architecture Overview

9
- What Does ADM Do
  9
- Essential Concepts
  10
- ADM Components
  10
  - Active Probe
    11
  - Architecture Solutions
    11
    
    Single-Box Setup
    11
    
    Distributed Appliance Solutions
    12
2 Getting Started

15
- Accessing the ADM Console
  15
- Log in to the ADM Console
  15
3 Managing ADM

17
- Groups
  17
- Discovery
  17
- Application Patterns
  18
- Changes
  18
- Fingerprints
  19
  - Identifying Application by Ports
    19
  - Aging
    20
    
    Deleting Aging Logs
    21
  - Users
    21
    
    Role-Based Access Control
    21
  - System
    22
    
    Licensing
    22
4 Groups

25
- Overview
  25
  - Requirements
    26
  - Built-In Groups
    26
  - User-Defined Groups
    26
  - Importing and Exporting Group Definitions
    29
5 Discovery

31
- Discovery Types
  31
  - Discovery Plans
    32
  - Passive Discovery
    32
    
    Policies
    32
    
    Plans
    32
  - IP Discovery
    32
    
    Policies
    33
  - Detail Discovery
    33
    
    Detail Discovery Tab
    33
  - Deploying Detail Discovery
    36
    
    Detail Discovery Configuration
    36
    
    How Do Active Probe Configurations Affect Detail Discovery Policies
    36
    
    Detail Discovery Policies
    36
    
    Configuring Standard os Agents
    37
    
    Dealing with Firewalls
    37
    
    Checking for Results
    37
  - Detail Discovery Protocols
    37
    
    Ssh
    38
    
    Snmp
    39
    
    Wmi
    40
    
    Telnet
    43
    
    VI-Sdk
    45
  - Discovering Dependencies with Detail Discovery
    46
    
    ADM Dependency Discovery Methods
    46
    
    Choosing a Method of Dependency Discovery
    47
    
    Discovery Strategy for Using Only Detail Discovery for Dependencies
    48
  - Vmware Discovery
    49
    
    Vmware Terminology Overview
    49
    
    Vmware Discovery in ADM
    49
    
    Use Case
    50
    
    Using VI-SDK for Detail Discovery
    52
    
    Capabilities
    52
6 Application Patterns

55
- Overview
  55
- Application Pattern Definitions
  55
7 Report

63
- Report Types
  63
- Exporting and Printing Reports
  64
8 Connectors

65
- Connectors Overview
  65
- EMC Smarts Integration
  65
  - Status
    66
  - Configuration
    67
  - Log
    68
  - Unregister ADM
    68
  - Complete Synchronize
    68
  - Displaying ADM Data in SAM
    68
  - Custom Reports
    70
9 Solver

71
- Overview
  71
- Reports in the Solver Tab
  71
- Index
  73

VMWARE VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1 - REPOSITORY Reference Manual

VMWARE VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1 - REPOSITORY Reference Manual (42 pages)

Brand: VMWARE | Category: Software | Size: 0.62 MB

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
3
About this Book
5
1 Introduction

7
- Overview
  7
  - How Data Is Collected
    7
- Synchronizing the External Database
  8
2 Set up the External Reports Scheme Configuration Policy

11
- Set up and Monitor the External Reports Scheme Configuration Policy
  11
  - Creating the External Reports Scheme Configuration Policy
    11
- Check the Status of the Synchronization Process
  13
3 External Database Setup

15
4 ADM ERD Schema

27
- Overview of External Database Tables
  28
  - Database Structure and Dependencies
    28
- Address
  30
- Change_Log
  30
- Cpu
  30
- Database
  31
- Dependency
  31
- Group_Membership
  32
- Installed_Software
  33
- Ip_Route
  33
- Java_Ee
  34
- Network_Element
  34
- Network_Interface
  36
- Port
  36
- Property
  37
- Service
  37
- Storage_Device
  38
- Switch_Address_Forwarding
  38
- Time Dimension
  39
- Usage Metric
  39
- Usage_Metric_Baseline
  40
- Virtual_System_Settings
  40
5 ADM Custom Reports

41
- Creating Custom Reports
  41
  - Host Inventory
    41
  - Connection Inventory
    41
  - Most Used Services
    41
  - Application Dependency
    42

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