Discovery profiles

To run a discovery, you must specify a discovery profile, which defines a set of options for discovery. Using discovery profiles, you can configure individual sensors, manage multiple configurations of the same sensor, choose the appropriate configuration based on a set of criteria, and manage sets of configurations of different sensors to be applied on a single discovery run.

By selecting the appropriate discovery profile, you can control the depth of discovery, or discovery level.

By default, TADDM provides four discovery profiles. Three are for the three levels of discovery that you can choose (Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3), depending on whether you want to do a credential-less or credentialed discovery. The remaining profile is for a utilization discovery.

If no profile is specified, the Level 3 discovery profile is used by default, although you can change the default profile in the Discovery Management Console.

For additional information on discovery profiles, see A Flexible Approach to Discovery on the TADDM wiki at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Application%20Dependency%20Discovery%20Manager/page/A%20Flexible%20Approach%20to%20Discovery.