Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM)


What is ADDM?

Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping is a feature to help you discover your applications and have a comprehensive insight into your business infrastructure. Imagine a map that displays all your applications, along with their relationships to other applications as well as to your infrastructure as a whole. Better yet, you have it all in one place. Yes, that should perhaps encapsulate it. Refer to know more about the technologies discovered through ADDM.

Why do you need ADDM?

Clearly, unless you want to manage your IT resources using spreadsheets or by employing audit techniques, ADDM is all that you need.

Here is just a glimpse of what you can do with ADDM:

  • Discover and group resources.
  • Establish relationships between resources.
  • Map the resources and gain a global view of your IT infrastructure.
  • Assess the health and impact potential of resources.
  • Detect/ Isolate problems with ease if any.
  • Get periodic status reports of your applications.
  • Make informed decisions and take your business to new levels.

Technologies discovered through ADDM

Below are the list of technologies that can be discovered through ADDM:

Monitor Category Monitor Types
Application Servers Apache Tomcat server
GlassFish
IBM WebSphere Application Server
Java Runtime (JMX)
JBoss / WildFly
Oracle WebLogic Server
Resin
Database Servers Apache Cassandra
IBM Db2 for LUW
Memcached
MongoDB
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL Server
Oracle Database
PostgreSQL
Redis
SAP ASE / Sybase SQL Server
SAP MaxDB
SQL Anywhere
Mail Servers Microsoft Exchange Server
Middleware/Portal IBM Websphere MQ
RabbitMQ
Server Linux
Windows
Services Active Directory
DNS Monitor
LDAP Server 
Virtualization Docker
Web Server/Services Apache HTTP Server
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
Nginx

Working with ADDM

Browse through the following sections to know more about working with Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM) in Applications Manager: