SDK Developer's Guide

Introducing the Software Developer's Kit
This topic introduces the IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) Software Developer's Kit (SDK) and provides a brief overview of the TADDM Common Data Model.
Installing and configuring the Software Developer Kit
Understanding the Common Data Model
The Common Data Model (CDM) is the definitional language used to integrate understanding and the exchange of data between Tivoli® management products concerning resources and components of a customer's business. The CDM is the model used to communicate details about resource instances with the IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) database.
Simplified Model
As Common Data Model causes problems, a new Simplified Model for storing data is introduced in TADDM 7.3 version. The only elements that are left from the old model are classes.
TADDM API overview
All discovery data that is displayed using the Data Management Portal is accessible using the TADDM Application Programming Interfaces (API). This topic describes the principal TADDM APIs: the Java™ API, the SOAP API, the REST API, and the Command Line Interface API.
Developing custom server extensions
You can use custom server extensions to discover targets for which TADDM has limited or no specific built-in support or to add functionality to TADDM.
TADDM database schema and views
The TADDM database contains all of the configuration items (CIs) managed by a TADDM domain.
TADDM Data Dictionary
The TADDM Data Dictionary is a collection of automatically-generated HTML pages that provide a mapping between information in the Common Data Model (CDM) and information in the TADDM database.
TADDM Javadoc information
You can used the Javadoc information that is included with TADDM to find out more about the APIs that are available.

Parent topic: Developing application integration