Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager

Gain visibility into services and their IT dependencies to manage business proactively

Gain visibility for IT Service Management by discovering application dependencies and configurations

Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager provides robust & automated application mapping & discovery for building an inventory of applications, configurations & dependencies; helps organizations understand the impact of change; and addresses compliance needs.

• Effectively implement IT service management initiatives by incorporating & correlating IT infrastructure information with data from other enterprise applications, such as governance, finance, and service desk.
• Get top-down, cross-tier views of how the IT infrastructure actually delivers applications.
• Understand the structure of interdependent and complex applications.
• Rapidly isolate configuration-related application problems, which reduces troubleshooting time from hours and days to minutes.
• Better understand the impact of component-level events in order to sort issues based on application and service impact.
• More effectively plan change so that application upgrades and deployments can occur without disruptions.
• Create a shared topological definition of applications for use by other management applications, such as service level managers and provisioning tools.

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Features, advantages and benefits

Features	Advantages	Benefits
Agent-free discovery engine	Upon installation, TADDM agent-free discovery starts building your application topology giving you results within hours. From a user perspective, the task driven Confignia UI is intuitive and users require little training. Using our prepackaged analytics mean you gain valuable insight immediately.	Substantially reduces the cost, time and complexity of implementation
Comprehensive and extensible visibility	TADDM delivers complete visibility into packaged and business applications built on .NET, J2EE, and custom application platforms and running on all major Windows, Unix, and Linux platforms - including mixed environments - on the broadest variety of computing and networking hardware.	Delivers immediate visibility in any datacenter and is easily extended to specific customer needs.
Deep configuration detail	TADDM discovers details such as OS patches, deployed application objects and hundreds of configuration values. In fact, in a typical 100-server application environment, TADDM captures values for over 27,000 individual settings.	TADDM allows customers to rapidly isolate and track change for all relevant information, reducing and eliminating change related slowdowns and insuring consistency and compliance.
Open API and SDK	TADDM was designed to integrate into the modern data center environment. To facilitate rapid integration, TADDM provides a complete SDK, including a full set of data, process and event APIs. TADDM is also integrated with other management applications such as IBM Tivoli, Micromuse Netcool and Compuware Vantage. Pluggable sensors capability enables rapid 3rd party sensor integration.	Allows leverage of application topology for automating and scaling other application management tasks like Service Level Management and IT automation. Rapid time to market for new Sensors.
Enterprise class security	TADDM uses industry standard secure protocols such as SSH in the discovery process, ensuring that sensitive data is both secure and accessible only by authorized access. TADDM can be configured to provide discovery across firewall zones, without compromising security or requiring changes in firewall policy.	Rapid security qualification and approval will speed time to value and ensure safety of critical information

• Ensure cost-effective and successful implementation of their IT Service Management initiatives

• Better anticipate the impact of a provisioning change prior to deployment

• Lower the business risks of service failures and inconsistencies

• Ensure compliance to technology and regulatory standards

• Reduce time to problems resolution by up to 90% or more

• Minimize time needed for root cause analysis.

• Performs configuration auditing by tracking application changes and depicting that information on application maps and reports, delivering comprehensive visibility into configuration drift.

• An agent-free discovery engine that enables you to create and visualize your application topology quickly and without the costs of deploying and managing agents within the environment.

• Leveraging an extensible and standards based CIM model, offers "out-of-the- box" discovery of several hundreds of infrastructure elements found in the typical data center, across the application software, host, storage, and network tiers.

• Provides deep visibility into infrastructure configurations to manage applications as well effectively implement critical changes that impact service delivery.

• Built for easy integration with an open architecture, robust and open APIs, and a complete and easy-to-use Software Development Kit (SDK).

• Uses industry standard secure protocols, in the discovery process, ensuring that sensitive data is both secure and accessible only by authorized access.

• User friendly graphic user interface (UI) with rich customization options providing deep configuration detail and easily consumable graphical representation (dependency maps) of complex IT infrastructure.

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