VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1 -... Instruction Manual

Application Discovery Manager

Administration Guide

vCenter Application Discovery Manager 6.1

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Contents

AboutThisBook 7

1Overview 9

SystemArchitecture 9

Single‐boxAppliance 11

DistributedApplianceSolutions 11

VirtualandPhysicalApplianceSolutions 12

VirtualApplianceDeployment 12

PhysicalApplianceDeployment 13

MirroredNetworkTraffic 13

vCollector 13

MixedEnvironment 13

WhereToGoNext 14

InstallationofNeworAdditionalADMComponents 14

Licenses 14

UpgradingADM 14

MigratingtoaNewAppliance 14

Security 14

2InstallingADM 15

ADMInstallationRequirements 15

InstallationPersonnel 15

ESXResources 15

InstallingthevSphereClient 16

DisablingvMotion 16

PreparingtheEnvironment 16

PreparinganESXConfiguration 16

CreatingaNewvSwitchforPassiveDiscovery 17

ConfiguringthevSwitchGeneralSettingsforPassiveDiscovery 17

ConfiguringthevSwitchforPassiveCollector 17

ConfiguringdvSwitchforPassiveCollector 18

DeployingtheVirtualAppliances 18

DeployingtheADMVirtualAppliances 18

BeforeYouBegin 19

DeploymentProcedure 19

InstallingWindowsCollector 20

BeforeYouBegin 20

Deployment 20

Uninstall 21

3SettingUpADM 23

Process 23

OrderofSetup 23

ADMSetupProcedures 23

LaunchingtheFirstBootConfigurationTool 24

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ConfiguringtheRootPassword 24

UsernameandPasswords 24

ConfiguringStaticNetworkSettings 25

ConfiguringtheTimezoneandTime 25

ConfiguringtheApplianceRole 26

Post‐InstallationSteps 27

LoggingIntotheADMConsole 27

InitiatingPassiveDiscovery 27

4SecuringADM 29

ChangingtheRootPassword 29

ResettingtheADMRootPassword 29

OpenSSLSelf‐SignedTestCertificates 30

CASignedTestCertificates 30

Self‐SignedCertificates 30

Copyingthe.keyand.crtFiles 31

5Maintenance 33

ADMServices 33

ManagingServiceswithadm_control 34

ProductSupportPackages 34

UsingtheADMConsole 35

UsingtheCLI 35

RestoringanADMEnvironmentbyUsingaProductSupportPackage 36

RestoretheADMDatabase 36

RestoringtheCustomDiscoveryandConfigurationFiles 37

ReconfiguringanADMDeployment 38

AddingaRemoteDatabasetoanExistingADMDeployment 38

ConvertingaSingle‐boxorAggregatortoaRemoteDatabase 38

MovingaDatabasetoaRemoteAppliance 39

Licenses 39

UploadingaLicense 40

6UpgradingADM 41

Overview 41

ApplianceType 41

MixedEnvironments 41

Licenses 41

ApplianceMigration 41

BackingUpData 41

UpgradingAppliances 42

ImportantNotes 42

PreliminaryProcedures 42

UpgradingAppliancesUsingCLI 42

Post‐UpgradeSteps 43

7MigratingtoaNewAppliance 45

Overview 45

SupportedMigration 45

Licenses 45

SystemArchitecture 45

Process 46

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Contents

PreliminaryProcedures 46

BackingUpWinApeMigrationFiles 46

RestoringWinApeMigrationFiles 47

DataRestoration 47

Single‐box‐Solution 47

DistributedSolutions 47

Collectors 47

WinApe 47

Aggregator 47

DistributedSolutionwithRemoteDatabase 48

Collectors 48

WinApe 48

Database 48

Aggregator 48

Post‐MigrationSteps 48

8TroubleshootingADM 49

TroubleshootingtheADMbyUsingtheProductSupportPackage 49

DetailDiscoveryTroubleshooting 49

WMI 49

single.sh 49

Location 50

Usage 50

Examples: 51

snmpdump 52

Location 52

Usage 52

Examples 53

nlcapture 53

Location 53

Usage 53

9UninstallingADM 55

UninstallingtheADMAppliance 55

ATimeZones 57

BADMAPITutorial 59

APIFeatures 59

Insight_control 59

AsynchAPI 60

DumpAPI 60

BulkAPI 61

WebServicesAPI 61

Index 63

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TheVMwarevCenter™ApplicationDiscoveryManager(ADM)AdministrationGuideprovidesinformation

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Intended Audience

ThisdocumentispartoftheVMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManagerdocumentationset,andis

intendedforusebysystemadministratorsandintegratorsresponsibleforinstallingADM.

TheinstallationproceduresinthisdocumentmustbeperformedbyITprofessionalsfamiliarwith

virtualizationandVMwaretechnologiessuchasVMwareESX™serversandrelatedvirtualandphysical

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ThischapterdescribesthedifferentVMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManager(ADM)architecture

solutionsandconfiguration.Topicsinclude:

“SystemArchitecture”onpage 9

“VirtualandPhysicalApplianceSolutions”onpage 12

“vCollector”onpage 13

“MixedEnvironment”onpage 13

“WhereToGoNext”onpage 14

System Architecture

TheADMprovidessystemarchitecturesolutionstomeettherequirementsofdifferentenvironmentsas

showninFigure 1‐1.

Figure 1-1. ADM Components

VMwareprovidesADMononeormoreappliances.Themodeoftheappliancedetermineswhichcomponent

isrunning.ADMcomponentsaredescribedinTable 1‐1.

Overview 1

AggregatorDatabase Active

Discovery-Unix

Active

Discovery-Windows

Passive

Discovery

Table 1-1. ADM Components

Component Description

ActiveDiscovery‐

UNIX

Collectsdatafromtheconfigurationobjectsinyourdatacenter.Thefollowingdiscoverytypesapply:

IPdiscovery—AmethodfordetectinghostsorotherconfigurationitemswithaspecificIPaddress

whenPassiveDiscoveryfailstodiscoverthem.

Detaildiscovery—ExtendstheinformationobtainedusingPassiveandIPDiscovery.Itusescommon

networkprotocolstoremotelyqueryserversinthemanagednetworkandobtainssupplementary

informationaboutnetworkhostswhichisaddedtothedatabase.

ActiveDiscovery‐

Windows

AdiscoveryenginethatusesWMIbaseddiscoverypoliciesforperformingactivediscoveryonWindows

machines.

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PassiveDiscovery Passivelyobservesthenetworktrafficbyperformingadeep‐packetanalysistodiscoverapplicationsand

componentrelationshipsinphysicalandvirtualenvironments.

Italsoallowsyouto:

Mapdependencies.

Counttheactivityofthesedependencies.

Identifyservices.

Aggregator Receivesdatafromthediscoverycomponentsandreconcilesthedatabeforetransferringittothedatabase

component.TheaggregatoralsoprovidestheuserinterfaceforusingADMandistheintegrationpointfor

variousintegrations,forexample,ERDB.

Database AnOracleRDBMSusedforstoringdiscovereddataandADMconfiguration.

Table 1-1. ADM Components

Component Description

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