IBM Tivoli
Application Dependency Discovery Manager
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) provides complete and detailed application maps of business applications and its supporting infrastructure, including cross-tier dependencies, run-time configuration values and complete change history.
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) provides complete visibility into application complexity by automatically creating and maintaining application infrastructure maps. The TADDM application maps are comprehensive and include complete run-time dependencies, deep configuration values and accurate change history.
TADDM provides an unparalleled level of visibility into how the infrastructure actually delivers the applications that the business counts on. By augmenting application map data with other enterprise application data such as governance, finance, etc., TADDM can deliver integrated, meaningful information that will allow you to transform your IT service management (ITSM) strategy.
Today's composite applications (e.g. J2EE, .NET, etc.) consist of large numbers of infrastructure components with complex run-time dependencies. Without visibility into these applications and their supporting infrastructure, it is difficult to effectively deliver and manage mission critical business services. This problem has become even more acute with the accelerating rate of change in today’s application infrastructure. Lacking an automated solution that provides complete and accurate cross-tier run-time dependency and configuration tracking, enterprises cannot improve their problem detection, isolation and resolution processes.
TADDM delivers more than data; it delivers integrated, meaningful knowledge that can be used to transform the business. The core features of Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager include:
- Agent-free discovery engine
Upon installation, TADDM agent-free discovery starts building the application topology giving you results within hours. From a user perspective, the task driven Confignia UI is intuitive and users require little training. Using the prepackaged analytics mean organisations gain valuable insight immediately. - 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. - Deep configuration detail
TADDM discovers details such as OS patches, deployed application objects and hundreds of configuration values. In a typical 100-server application environment, TADDM captures values for over 27,000 individual settings. - 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. Collation has also pre-integrated TADDM with other management applications such as IBM Tivoli, Micromuse Netcool and Compuware Vantage
TADDM offers several scaling enhancements making it the only mapping solution that can effectively scale to support very large enterprise IT environments:
- Discovery setup
TADDM supports advanced scope management capabilities that significantly improve the granularity of setting up discovery scopes. - Discovery and change tracking performance
TADDM discovery performance has been enhanced to:- Support very large scale IT infrastructure environment
- Dramatically enhance the change tracking capabilities of TADDM
- A single TADDM server can support discoveries of up to 2500 servers and all associated components
- TADDM Operations Portal
The portal allows organizations to aggregate and analyze data gathered by multiple TADDM deployments across separate management domains such as business units or geographies. By leveraging the TADDM Operations Portal, TADDM provides visibility into the entire enterprise IT infrastructure.
Business Benefit:
- Ensure cost-effective and successful implementation of IT Service Management initiatives
- Better anticipate the impact of a provisioning change prior to deployment
- Dramatically lower the business risks of service failures and inconsistencies
- Ensure compliance to technology and regulatory standards
- Reduce time to problems resolution by 90% or more