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How the software operates

Atrium Discovery Overview

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Atrium Object-Mesh Database

Represents the world the way it is: Complex, interconnected and changing


Atrium Discovery

credential vault

Your IT estate

usernames, passwords, community strings

discovery process

logs in, runs commands

1 2

3stores collected

data in the datastore as

“Directly Discovered Data”

(DDD)datastore


Windows Discovery

Windows Discovery is handled by Windows Slaves Slave is a Windows Service Runs on a Windows server in the estate Credential Slave logs in to hosts with credentials from

the appliance vault “Workgroup” or “Active Directory” slaves use the

Windows account that runs the slave


Windows Discovery – Credential Slave

Your IT estate

usernames, passwords

discovery process

Connects to estate with supplied username/password

1

3

credential vault

Credential Slave

Delegates discovery to

Windows slave

2


Windows Discovery – AD/Workgroup Slave

Your IT estate

discovery process

Connects to the estate using the slave’s Windows Service

account 2

AD/Workgroup Slave

Delegates discovery to the

slave1


Atrium Discovery Reasoning Platform

discovery processDiscovery stores DDD

in the datastore

1

datastore

reasoning platform

Reasoning applies patterns to DDD

2

patterns

Inferred data is written back to the datastore

4Patterns make

inferences

3


Inferred Data

Hosts

BusinessApplications

The reasoning platform infers the presence of hosts, software instances and business applications from the DDD

DirectlyDiscoveredData

Software Instances


Patterns Are Really Powerful

BMC Atrium Discovery ships a monthly pattern updates for popular commercial software

You can add patterns to the system: Do full Application Dependency Mapping Identify running software Associate owner and location information with hosts Extend discovery to collect extra information according to your needs Query databases to look up information about hosts Query scanned databases to extract data contained therein Many other things


Search Everything

Everything is indexed

All information is instantly available


Interactive Analysis

Dashboards, reports and search are great starting-points

Explore! The next answer is only a click away

Report

Dashboard

Search

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Analysis UI Overview


UI Navigation

Login to the appliance UI Take note of the following:

Title bar Tab bar The home page Tab

Quick Access Tools Permanent set of tools : help,

recent items, groups, user properties

Additional tools based location within the UI


Navigation bars: Tabs and Buttons

Note that our top level navigation is via Tabs The tab you are in is highlighted

Within each Tab there can be second level navigation buttons The area you are in is highlighted Not all Tabs have second level navigation

We will refer to pages(tabs), sub-pages, sections etc like:Discovery > Discovery Status > Recent Runs


Home Page: Dashboard Intro

A dashboard is an arrangement of channels that is shown on the home page

Users can switch between a number of dashboards The choice of dashboard is per-user


Applications Appearance

What software/packages are installed in your estate Your Business Applications Standard reports


Infrastructure Appearance


Infrastructure Tab Key Points

Infrastructure Summary Brief overview Infrastructure types Drill down for further details

Standard report channels Some arrive out of the box Typically more complex than 'Applications'

May be customized Screen and reports can be adapted to your environment


Discovery Appearance

Current running status Discovery start and stop

Management of discovery Credentials and Exclude ranges Patterns and Integration points Schedule future or reoccurring discovery runs

Details of previous discovery runs Recent Runs


Reports Appearance


Administration Appearance


Administration Tab Key Points

Control discovery options and mechanisms Discovery scripts and port scanning Discovery Consolidation

Security management Users and groups Activate and control different authentication methods

Atrium Discovery Appliance management Appliance configuration and control View and change logging levels

Model View the taxonomy Model configuration


Further Resources

Online Documentation: http://www.tideway.com/confluence/display/81/Documentation

Configipedia for tips, tricks and articles: http://www.tideway.com/confluence/display/Configipedia/

Forums for help, ideas and discussion: http://www.tideway.com/community/forum/

Technology

Addmi 02-addm overview