IBM Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)

With IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM), you can gain visibility for IT Service Management.  You will be able to:

• Discover and visualize interdependencies and relationships between applications, computer systems and network devices through application mapping and agentless, credential-free discovery capabilities
• Learn how configuration items (CIs) are configured and changing over time by capturing the configuration of each CI, tracking changes to it and providing analytics to report on the history of configuration changes
• Determine if configurations comply with your policies by comparing discovered configurations to a “reference master” to reveal policy violations
• Use industry-standard secure protocols in the discovery process to ensure sensitive data is accessible only by authorized access
• Use configurable discovery profiles and a phased-in discovery process to control where users discover, what they discover and how deep they go – from lightweight, credential-free discovery up to agentless deep-dive discovery
• Rapidly deploy and share application maps across operational management products, teams and processes through:
• Open APIs
• An extensible model
• Pluggable sensor framework
• Software development tools

TADDM is a robust application mapping and discovery tool that gathers an inventory of applications, their configurations and their dependencies to help you understand change and address compliance through detailed reports and auditing tools.

The software performs discovery and stores information on:

• Applications (both distributed and mainframe) including their dependencies
• Servers that are hosting application in the distributed world, on mainframes and even in virtualized environments
• Storage (host bus adaptors, fiber channel volumes, switches, channels)
• Networks (routers, switches, load balancers)
• The relationships across all – from Layer 2 to layer 7 of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) model
• Application dependencies between mainframe and distributed applications

TADDM allows you to:

• Learn how applications, computer systems and network devices are configured and changing over time
• Employ sensors to automate and speed application discovery
• User discovery profiles to get the depth of discovery you need including deep configuration details
• Monitor compliance to support policies for standardization and configuration consistency
• Facilitate data aggregation, querying and reporting for internal configuration auditing requirements
• Easily integrate with other products and processes

For more information about TADDM or TRM’s IT Service Management solutions, please contact marketing@trmnet.com or 703-548-4285.

Click here for the IBM TADDM Brochure.