Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager

Gain visibility for IT Service Management by discovering application dependencies and configurations

Overview

IBM® Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager uncovers application dependencies and configurations.

Understand configurations, map applications and changes and address compliance measures with this application discovery software.

Uses the application mapping and agent-less, credential-free discovery capabilities of application dependency software so that you can see relationships between applications, computer systems and network devices
Captures the configuration of each CI, tracks changes to it and provides analytics to report the history of configuration changes so that you can see how configuration items are configured and change over time
Compares discovered configurations to a “reference master” to reveal policy violations and to determine if configurations comply with your policies
Uses industry-standard secure protocols in the discovery process to ensure that sensitive data is available only by authorized access
Controls where users discover, what they discover and how deep they go, from lightweight, credential-free discovery up to agent-less deep-dive discovery
Rapidly deploys and shares application maps with operational management products, teams and processes using open APIs, an extensible model, pluggable sensor framework and software development tools
Integrates with products such as Tivoli Business Systems Manager, Tivoli Provisioning Manager, IBM Tivoli Monitoring Services, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA and many more to expand its application discovery software capabilities