Discovery and Dependency Mapping (DDMA)
DDMA uses the Discovery process to collect information about your IT infrastructure resources and their interdependencies. Discovery discovers resources such as applications, databases, network devices, servers, and so on. Each discovered IT resource is delivered to, and stored in, the RTSM, where the resource is represented as a managed CI.
Discovery is an ongoing, automatic process that continuously detects changes that occur in the IT infrastructure and updates the RTSM accordingly. You must install the Data Flow Probe component (supplied with BSM) to run the Discovery jobs, but you do not need to install any agents on the devices to be discovered.
Following installation, CIs are created for the Data Flow Probe network, host, and host IP. These CIs act as triggers that activate a Discovery job. Every time a job is activated, the job discovers more CIs, which in turn are used as triggers for other jobs. This process continues until the entire IT infrastructure is discovered and mapped.
You manage the Discovery process and the Data Flow Probe from the Data Flow Management (DFM) component in RTSM Administration. In addition, DFM enables you to use the Data Flow Probe to synchronize the topology between RTSM and external data sources (without the need for a DDMA license).
For more details, see "Data Flow Management Overview" in the Data Flow Management Guide.