Integrating BMC Atrium Discovery

BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping is a data center discovery solution that automatically discovers data center inventory, configuration and relationship data, and maps applications to the IT infrastructure. BMC Atrium Discovery establishes the foundation for improving IT processes and productivity by providing timely and actionable insight to make informed decisions in IT service management, asset management and infrastructure/operations management. Benefits include reducing the number of incidents caused by change, reducing the time taken to isolate the root cause, reducing the time taken to prepare for audits, preventing audit penalties, prioritizing incidents based on business impact, and optimizing data center hardware and software.

Before you begin

• Install BMC Atrium Sign-On server and configure with an authentication method before installing BMC Atrium Discovery.
• Ensure that the BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM) administrator and any users that you want to use ADDM exist in the BMC Atrium Sign-On server. See Managing users and Managing user groups.
• If you want to use the latest features of BMC Atrium Single Sign-On, you must upgrade to the 9.0 web agents libraries on your existing BMC product servers.You do not need to reintegrate your products with BMC Atrium Single Sign-On. Contact the respective BMC product administrator for upgrading agent libraries.

To integrate BMC Atrium Discovery

For information about integrating BMC Atrium Discovery with BMC Atrium Single Sign-On, you must follow the steps mentioned in the integration topic, Integrating ADDM with BMC Atrium Single Sign-On.