BMC ADDM (Atrium Discovery and dependency mapping)
BMC ADDM is part of the CMDB automation solution
:OVERVIEW: Automatically discover physical and virtual IT assets and applications - and the links between them
Reduce costs while dramatically simplifying critical IT initiatives such as virtualization and cloud computing, software license management, data center consolidation, disaster recovery, and change impact management
COMPREHENSIVE CAPABILITIES INCLUDE
- Provides the industry's largest open library of predefined product configurations (30,000+ updated monthly) and a large, active community of users sharing knowledge
- Provides critical, historical context by linking all discovered data back to its source
- Seamlessly integrates with key IT management systems, third-party CMDBs, Atrium and BMC SDE
- Includes reference data for hardware power consumption and heat dissipation and for software end-of-life dates
- Requires no software to be installed on discovered devices
- Encrypts passwords and communication and has been tested against industry-standard penetration tools
- Includes automated diagnostics that quickly identify the location and cause of any discovery issue
addm sCREENS
(Screenshots: Dashboards, automatic Change Management, Dependencies, Reports, Drill Down Details)
| Feature | Description | Importance level |
|---|---|---|
| Agentless | No need to install agents everywhere | very |
| Communication discovery | Knowing what is in use in your datacenter | very |
| Relationships | ADDM discovers relationships | very |
| Self learning | It discovers network ranges | very |