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Application Discovery Manager Administration Guide

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DownloadthefollowingartifactsfromtheVMwareWebsite:

http://downloads.vmware.com/Application Discovery Manager

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CoreADMTemplate:AnOVFtemplatethatincludesallADMcomponentsexceptfortheWindows

CollectorandyoucanconfigureasAggregator,Aggregatorwithremotedatabase,Database,or

Single‐Box.

 CollectorADMTemplate:AsmallerOVFtemplatethatincludesthePassiveCollectorandActiveand

PassiveCollectorandyoucanconfigureaspassiveandactivediscoveryCollectorandPassiveDiscovery

Collector.

 WindowsCollectorInstaller:AnexecutablefilethatinstallstheWindowsCollectorcomponentontopof

theWindows2008R2operatingsystems.

Physical Appliance Deployment

ADMsupportstheupgradingofexistingIBMsingleboxandDistributedsolutions(includingthosethatuse

aremotedatabase).

Mirrored Network Traffic

Themethodinwhichtheapplianceperformspassivediscoveryisbyanalyzingmirroredtrafficfromaswitch

orrouter.Networkdevicesthathavetheabilitytoconfigureamirroredport(sometimescalledasaSwitched

PortAnalyzer,spanportormonitorport)canforwardacopyofallthenetworktraffic

fromall(orselected)

portstooneormoremirroredports.Typically ,eachnetworkdevicehasallitsportsmirroredtooneport.These

mirroredportsarethenconnecteddirectlytooneofthenetworkinterfacesontheESXserver.

Performoneofthefollowingstepsifyouhaveto

connectmultiplemonitorports:

 Connectthemonitorportstoanaggregateswitch(A‐Switch),whichisalsoconfiguredwithamonitor

port.PlugthemirroredportoftheA‐SwitchintotheESXservernetworkinterface.

ContactyourVMwareSalesRepresentativeifyourequireanA‐Switch.

 AddfewmorenetworkinterfacestoESXserver.

 InstallanotherADMPassiveCollectoronadifferentESXserver.

vCollector

TheADMusesavirtualcollector(vCollector)tolistentocommunicationbetweenvirtualmachinesthatrun

onthesameVMwareESXServer.AvCollectorispresentinsideavirtualmachineanditslistenercollectsthe

informationaboutthevirtualmachinesdeployedontheESXServer.BydeployingavCollector,theADM

is

abletopassivelydiscoverdependenciesinavirtualizedenvironment.Youcanthenviewinformationabout

thevirtualmachinesthataredeployedonthesameESXServerincluding:

 Dependencymapsbetweenvirtualmachines.

 Activitycountsofthedependencies.

 Servicesrunningonthevirtualmachines.

 Additionalinformationthatisofferedbythelistener.

MPORTANTConsultITprofessionalsofyourorganizationtoensurethattheappropriateswitchesorrouters

thatcontainsthenetworktrafficisusedforDiscoveryareconfiguredproperlyforportmirroringandare

accessibletotheADMappliance.

OTETheADMPassiveCollectorcanworkwithmaximumofthreemonitorports.Ifyouhavetoconnect

morethanthreemonitorports,youmustaddanotherADMPassiveCollector.

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