Documentation

This is the home page for BMC Atrium Discovery 10.0 documentation. The documentation is divided into the following sections:

• BMC Atrium Discovery — Provides an introduction to BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping (BMC Atrium Discovery). It is intended for any staff who are unfamiliar with BMC Atrium Discovery.
• Release Notes — Accompany each product release and provide details of new features introduced in that release as well as known issues/workarounds. For information on between-release updates or EFix releases, see the readme file that is provided with the update.
• Getting started — Provides a brief introduction and step by step guide to starting work with BMC Atrium Discovery. It contains much useful information for new users of BMC Atrium Discovery.
• User guide — Describes the day to day use of the product. It is intended for IT operations staff and managers who are using and managing BMC Atrium Discovery, including viewing, creating, exporting, searching, and reporting on data from an infrastructure or a business perspective. Information on the Using the Search and Reporting service is also provided.
• Configuration guide — Describes how to set up and configure the product. It is intended for IT operations staff who are responsible for setting up, managing and configuring BMC Atrium Discovery and any associated Windows proxies. It describes options on the BMC Atrium Discovery user interface that are only available to users with administration privileges as well as command line access to certain parts of the product which are not accessible through the UI.
• Deployment guide — Provides information on pre-requisites for a successful deployment of BMC Atrium Discovery, information on the appliance specification and performance data.
• Application mapping — Describes a collaborative approach to using BMC Atrium Discovery to create and maintain maps of your business applications. Collaborative Application Mapping (CAM) enables you to understand what business services are supported by what part of the IT infrastructure and helps you build dynamic, effective application maps that are automatically maintained by BMC Atrium Discovery.
  
  The BMC Atrium Discovery Application Mapping guide is intended for anyone who wants to use BMC Atrium Discovery to map applications in their estate. This guide describes the application mapping methodology, how to gather and organize data and collaborate on a mapping prototype, and how BMC Atrium Discovery generates and maintains the resultant application map.
• Security — Provides a brief overview of the security aspects of BMC Atrium Discovery.
• Troubleshooting — Provides information on possible problems that you might encounter, troubleshooting and debugging tips, and how to collect data that Customer Support might need to solve problems.

Download a PDF version of the BMC Atrium Discovery documentation set