VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1.1 -... Instruction Manual

Application Discovery Manager

Administration Guide

vCenter Application Discovery Manager 6.1.1

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Contents

AboutThisBook 7

1Overview 9

SystemArchitecture 9

DistributedApplianceSolutions 11

VirtualandPhysicalApplianceSolutions 11

VirtualApplianceDeployment 11

PhysicalApplianceDeployment 12

MirroredNetworkTraffic 12

vCollector 12

MixedEnvironment 13

WhereToGoNext 13

InstallationofNeworAdditionalADMComponents 13

Licenses 13

UpgradingADM 13

MigratingtoaNewAppliance 13

Security 13

2InstallingADM 15

ADMInstallationRequirements 15

InstallationPersonnel 15

ESXResources 15

InstallingthevSphereClient 16

DisablingvMotion 16

PreparingtheEnvironment 17

PreparinganESXConfiguration 17

DeployingtheVirtualAppliances 18

DeployingtheADMVirtualAppliances 19

InstallingWindowsCollector 20

3SettingUpADM 23

Process 23

OrderofSetup 23

ADMSetupProcedures 23

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

ConfiguringtheRootPassword 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

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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

5Maintenance 33

ADMServices 33

ProductSupportPackages 34

UsingtheADMConsole 35

UsingtheCLI 35

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

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

PreliminaryProcedures 46

DataRestoration 47

Single‐BoxSolution 47

DistributedSolutions 47

DistributedSolutionwithRemoteDatabase 48

Post‐MigrationSteps 48

8TroubleshootingADM 49

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

TroubleshootingErrorMessagesDuringWMIDiscovery 49

DetailDiscoveryTroubleshooting 49

UsingADMConsole 50

WMI 50

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Contents

single.sh 50

snmpdump 53

nlcapture 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

thattheadministratorsarerequiredtoinstallandconfiguretheADM.

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.Thischapterincludesthefollowingtopics:

“SystemArchitecture”onpage 9

“VirtualandPhysicalApplianceSolutions”onpage 11

“vCollector”onpage 12

“MixedEnvironment”onpage 13

“WhereToGoNext”onpage 13

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

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Single-Box Appliance

InaSingle‐Boxappliancesolutionarchitecture,theADMcomponentsareenabledonasingleVirtual

Appliance(VA)asshowninFigure 1‐2.

Figure 1-2. Single-Box Appliance Architecture

Chapter 3providestheconfigurationinstructions.

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.

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.

Database

ESX1

ADM VM2

Active Discovery-

Windows

Runs on (Virtualization)

Logical monitoring

port connectivity

ADM Connectivity

Physical

switch 2

Physical

switch 1

Active Discovery-

Unix

Aggregator

Passive

Discovery

vSwitch

ADM VM1

Role = single-box

Role=Windows collector

(running Win2008

on any ESX)

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