Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager

Features and benefits

Business benefits

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 todays application infrastructure. Without an effective 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 effectively meet Service Level Agreements.

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 and customizable configuration values and accurate change history. Ultimately, TADDM delivers more than data; it delivers integrated, meaningful knowledge you can use to transform your business.

Using TADDM, customers have been able to:

• 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.

Product Overview

• 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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