Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM)
What is ADDM?
Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping is a feature to help you discover your applications and have a comprehensive insight into your business infrastructure. Imagine a map that displays all your applications, along with their relationships to other applications as well as to your infrastructure as a whole. Better yet, you have it all in one place. Yes, that should perhaps encapsulate it. Refer to know more about the technologies discovered through ADDM.
Why do you need ADDM?
Clearly, unless you want to manage your IT resources using spreadsheets or by employing audit techniques, ADDM is all that you need.
Here is just a glimpse of what you can do with ADDM:
- Discover and group resources.
- Establish relationships between resources.
- Map the resources and gain a global view of your IT infrastructure.
- Assess the health and impact potential of resources.
- Detect/ Isolate problems with ease if any.
- Get periodic status reports of your applications.
- Make informed decisions and take your business to new levels.
Technologies discovered through ADDM
Below are the list of technologies that can be discovered through ADDM:
| Monitor Category | Monitor Types |
|---|
| Application Servers | Apache Geronimo Server |
| Apache Tomcat server |
| GlassFish |
| IBM WebSphere Application Server |
| Java Runtime (JMX) |
| JBoss / WildFly |
| Oracle WebLogic Server |
| Resin |
| Database Servers | Apache Cassandra |
| Couchbase |
| IBM Db2 for LUW |
| Informix |
| Memcached |
| MongoDB |
| Microsoft SQL Server |
| MySQL Server |
| Neo4j |
| Oracle Database |
| PostgreSQL |
| Redis |
| SAP ASE / Sybase SQL Server |
| SAP MaxDB |
| SQL Anywhere |
| ERP | Microsoft Dynamics CRM / 365 (On-Premise) |
| Mail Servers | Microsoft Exchange Server |
| Middleware/Portal | Apache ActiveMQ |
| Apache Kafka |
| IBM Websphere MQ |
| Microsoft MQ (MSMQ) |
| MS Office SharePoint |
| Microsoft skype for business |
| RabbitMQ |
| Servers | Linux |
| Windows |
| Services | Active Directory |
| Apache Spark Master |
| Apache ZooKeeper |
| DNS Monitor |
| Hadoop |
| LDAP Server |
| Virtualization | Docker |
| KVM Note: ADDM requires SSH/Telnet credentials to discover KVM monitors. |
| Web Server/Services | Apache Server |
| Apache Solr |
| Elasticsearch Cluster |
| Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) |
| Nginx |
Working with ADDM
Browse through the following sections to know more about working with Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM) in Applications Manager:
