Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager

Effectively discovers your most critical resources

• Performs agentless discovery and stores information on applications and their dependencies
• Enables multiple, concurrent discovery jobs to be supported on a single discovery server
• Supports streaming mode, where discovered data flows in parallel from multiple discovery servers to your enterprise database
• Provides asynchronous discovery so that discovered data is more accurate and business service views are current
• Supports credential-free manual script discovery for systems where access is not allowed or where credentials are difficult to obtain
• Efficiently works across distributed and mainframe platforms

Provides a clear view of interdependencies

• Identifies the interdependencies between servers, applications, network devices, software, configuration files, operating systems and other IT infrastructure components
• Tracks the IT resources in your environment and the dependencies of your business applications on various components.
• Enhances management of physical, virtual and cloud environments

Interoperates seamlessly with business operations tools

• Highlights which resources are not being monitored
• Expedites isolation of configuration-related application problems and troubleshooting
• Provides “proactive discovery” to reconcile discovery and monitoring data to help speed time to resolution
• Launches in context to Tivoli Monitoring for performance and availability metrics
• Detects underutilized servers

Helps you understand change and control its effects throughout the infrastructure.

• Determine if a configuration has changed to highlight potential impacts to the health of a business application
• See what has changed on virtualized servers
• Gain insight into how potential changes might impact application infrastructure dependencies

Creates a shared topological view of applications

• Creates and maintains topology views that describe runtime dependencies and include critical configuration values and change histories
• Can be leveraged by other management applications such as incident management, monitoring and provisioning tools