Entities, lookup information, and API calls for BMC Discovery
This topic explains the entities, lookup details, and API calls for BMC Discovery.
Entity list
The BMC Discovery ETL collects the following entities:
- Business application instance
- Generic standalone systems
- Virtual machines
Entity relationship
Source entity | Destination entity | Description | Display status |
|---|---|---|---|
Business application instance (app) | Virtual machines (LPAR, LDOM, and VM) | Business application contains VMs | Visible |
Lookup information
Lookup details for business applications
Entity | Entity type | Lookup fields | |
|---|---|---|---|
Strong | Weak | ||
Business application instance | app | APPLICAITON_ID, APPLICATION_NAME, _COMPATIBILITY_ | - |
Lookup details for virtual machines, LPAR, and LDOM
Entities | Entity type name | Entity type | Lookup fields | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Strong | Weak | |||
VMware virtual machine | Virtual Machine - VMware | gm:vmw | PARENT_VCUUID &&VMWARE_VMREF | CLUSTERNAME&&HOSTNAME, UUID, NAME |
Unix server AIX | AIX LPAR | gm:lp | HOSTNAME, _COMPATIBILITY_(Mapped to HOSTNAME) | NAME |
Windows server UNIX server | Generic | gen | HOSTNAME, _COMPATIBILITY_(Mapped to HOSTNAME) | NAME |
Oracle virtual machine Xen virtual machine | Virtual Machine - Xen | gm:xen | HOSTNAME OR UUID , _COMPATIBILITY_(Mapped to HOSTNAME) | NAME |
Microsoft Hyper-V | Virtual Machine - Hyper-V | gm:hv | HOSTNAME OR UUID, _COMPATIBILITY_(Mapped to HOSTNAME) | NAME |
KVM virtual machine RHEL UNIX server | Virtual Machine - KVM | gm:kvm | HOSTNAME OR UUID , _COMPATIBILITY_(Mapped to HOSTNAME) | NAME |
AIX Shared Processor Pool | Virtual Machine - AIX Shared Processor LPAR | gm:splp | HOSTNAME, _COMPATIBILITY_(Mapped to HOSTNAME) | NAME |
Azure virtual machine | Virtual Machine - Azure | gm:azu | RESOURCE_ID | NAME |
AWS virtual machine | Virtual Machine - AWS | gm:aws | AWS_ID | NAME |
GCP virtual machine | Virtual Machine - Google Cloud | gm:gcp | INSTANCE_ID | NAME |
Solaris LDOM | Virtual Machine - Solaris LDOM | gm:ldom | HOSTNAME | NAME |
HP-UX UNIX server | Virtual Machine - HP Integrity | gm:int | HOSTNAME | NAME |
Lookup details for domains
Entity | Entity type | Lookup fields | |
|---|---|---|---|
Strong | Weak | ||
Unassociated hosts | gen | APPLICATION_NAME [appended with the host name of BMC Discovery:Unassociated hosts_discoveryHostName], _COMPATIBILITY_ | - |
Business services | gen | APPLICATION_NAME [appended with the host name of BMC Discovery:Unassociated hosts_discoveryHostName], _COMPATIBILITY_ | |
The BMC Discovery ETL creates the following components in the hierarchy:
- An application for each discovered business application instance.
- An additional domain called unassociated hosts that groups all the objects that are not associated to a business application instance.
Configuration metrics
The following configuration metrics are imported in BMC Helix Continuous Optimization for each discovered system:
API calls for BMC Discovery ETL
The BMC Discovery ETL makes the REST API calls to collect data from BMC Discovery. For more information, see .
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