BAC 7 FeaturesSiteScope EMS Topology

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Customer Scenarios

• You are at a customer site and they ask you if you can add their entire list of servers to the CMDB so they can use it as a repository for their infrastructure.

• They have already got a CMDB but their probe crashed and they need to populate the CMDB with additional servers.

• The problem is that they have about 350 servers to add…

• What should you do?– Add them manually (which can take you a week).

– Push them with the new EMS integration topology, and then assign a type to the servers and associate them to their networks via enrichment (which might take you half a day).

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How Does It Work?

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Quick Demo

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Background

• So we can see that SiteScope can do some sort of discovery without installing a discovery probe, but it is still not on the same level as discovery with DDM (previously MAM).

• Based on Jython code.

• Take an example from the scripts, hack it, understand the mechanism and populate new CIs.

• Another good location is the BAC discovery script repository found at \\HPBAC\mam_lib\packages\ (found on every BAC installation), extract a zip file and under the ‘discoveryScripts’ folder you can find scripts.

• Can populate applications and tickets out of the box.– But we are more interested in hosts since there are generally many

more hosts than applications.

• Later with enrichment manager we can assigned them to host_type, host_os, etc…