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Chapter 1 Architecture Overview

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 1‐2.

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

1Assign

discoveryitemstoaspecificCollector.

2Define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.

Table 1-2. ADM Components

Component Description

ActiveDiscovery‐

Unix

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.

ActiveDiscovery‐

Windows

AdiscoveryenginethatusesWMIbaseddiscoverypoliciesforperformingactive

discoveryon

Windowsmachines.

PassiveDiscovery 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.

Aggregator 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.

Database AnOracleRDBMSusedtostorediscovereddataandADMconfiguration.

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