VMware Application Discovery Manager
Automated application discovery and dependency mapping
VMware Application Discovery Manager provides the automated, realtime application discovery and dependency mapping capability needed for effective, dependency-driven change, configuration, incident, and problem management across physical and virtual environments. Through Application Discovery Manager’s embedded, realtime data repository, enterprises can accurately manage change impact, and help ensure their information infrastructures conform to IT governance or compliance standards.
Application Discovery Manager’s repository provides a realtime, automated dependency catalog that allows enterprises to eliminate their reliance on “tribal knowledge” and guesswork, avoid change-induced service outages, degradations, and failures, and remain IT-compliant. This repository also allows users to precisely control configuration drift and populate third-party or homegrown CMDBs or CMSs based on the high-definition discovery data uncovered by Application Discovery Manager.
Enterprises can detect, log, and report on software and hardware configuration changes and compare configurations server to server. External database reporting capabilities provide the ability to create customized reports based on the data in Application Discovery Manager’s repository. With its native VMware (formerly Smarts) integration, users can quickly correlate infrastructure incidents to application impact based on realtime models of application topologies and dependency relationships. Operations teams can quickly determine what changed and track down the truth behind the all-too-common statement: “I didn’t change anything”.
Better understanding means easier management
Application Discovery Manager is the only application dependency mapping solution that provides realtime, agentless discovery, to continuously and passively track application dependencies, demand, usage, service levels, and change events, and determine impact analyses. Application Discovery Manager enables enterprises to discover their entire application infrastructures, and visually map all resources and dependencies. This allows enterprises to manage more effectively, by having a thorough understanding of relationships, impact, change and configuration, demand, usage, and service levels. .
VMware support enables discovery of application services and configurations in virtual environments and uniquely complements VirtualCenter by mapping the physical to virtual dependencies.
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