BMC Discovery 21.x: Fundamentals Administering

Course Overview

Using BMC Discovery, applications may be mapped to the IT infrastructure while data centre inventory, configuration, and relationship data are automatically discovered. By offering timely and useful data to make educated decisions in IT service management, asset management, and infrastructure/operations management, BMC Discovery lays the groundwork for enhancing IT processes and productivity.

The fundamental ideas and features of BMC Discovery are covered in this course. The course discusses BMC Discovery's updated features and enhancements. The participants will be given all the information they require regarding the architecture, features, utilities, configurations, and troubleshooting advice for the best deployment.

 

Audience Profile

 Administrators

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the need for BMC Discovery 
  • Describe the working of BMC Discovery 
  • Describe the compliance support of BMC Discovery 
  • Review the layout and utilities in the user interface 
  • Access available dashboards and configure dashboards 
  • Set up users and configure User Interface Security 
  • Describe a taxonomy and view standard patterns from the UI 
  • Run a basic discovery scan and interpret the results 
  • Explain different Discovery access types 
  • Configure credentials for scans in BMC Discovery 
  • Describe storage discovery in BMC Discovery 
  • Describe patterns 
  • Explain the concept of the first scan, second scan, and optimization in a discovery run 
  • Monitor discovery runs 
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot discovery issues 
  • Execute basic and advanced query language queries 
  • Use search clauses in creating search queries 
  • Run reports and view dependencies using visualizations 
  • Configure CMDB Synchronization 
  • Describe consolidation in BMC Discovery 
  • Describe clustering and cluster management in BMC Discovery 
  • Examine and modify an appliance baseline

Content Outline

  • BMC Discovery Concepts 
  • UI Overview 
  • User Management 
  • LDAP Integration 
  • Security Policy 
  • General Security Concepts at the CLI

Basic Discovery Essentials 

  • The Credential Vault 
  • BMC Discovery Credentials 
  • Windows Credentials 
  • PowerShell Credentials 
  • Device Credentials 
  • Credential Filtering and Ordering 
  • Testing Credentials 
  • Scope 
  • Taxonomy Basics 
  • Understanding Data Models 
  • Viewing the Taxonomy 
  • Basic Philosophy 
  • First Scan Details 
  • Second Scan Details 
  • Optimization Details 
  • Bringing it All Together 
  • Platforms 
  • UNIX Discovery Scripts 
  • Windows Discovery Scripts 
  • SNMP Discovery Scripts 
  • VMware ESX Discovery Scripts 
  • Investigating and Troubleshooting per Discovery Run 
  • Investigating and Troubleshooting per Discovery Access 
  • Mapping Discovery Access Page to Platform Page 
  • Investigating and Troubleshooting per Host Node 
  • Investigating and Troubleshooting from the Discovery Dashboard 
  • Discovery Conditions 
  • Discovery Reports 
  • Storage Discovery 
  • Viewing Storage Discovery Results 
  • Load Balancer Discovery 
  • Viewing Load Balancer Discovery Results
  • Describe Software Containers 
  • Describe Software Container Orchestration Software 
  • Describe Hardware Containers 
  • Pattern Basics 
  • Data Models and Pattern Configuration 
  • Displaying and Saving Visualizations 
  • Introduction to Application Mapping with Visualization
  • Introduction to Cloud Discovery 
  • Overview of Performing Cloud Discovery 
  • Viewing Cloud Data 
  • Dashboard Basics 
  • Channels Overview 
  • Adding Channels 
  • Working with Dashboards 
  • Dashboards in the CLI 
  • CMDB Synchronization Overview 
  • Configuring the CMDB Connection 
  • CMDB Filters 
  • Configuring CMDB Synchronization 
  • Multitenancy 
  • CMDB Synchronization in a Cluster 
  • Viewing CIs in the CMDB
  • Types of Searches 
  • Query Builder Basics 
  • Query Builder Layout 
  • Building a Query 
  • Custom Reports 
  • Formulating Queries 
  • The SEARCH and WHERE Clauses 
  • The SHOW Clause 
  • Matches in Regular Expressions 
  • Advanced Query Language 
  • Introduction to Appliance Baseline 
  • Viewing Baseline Differences 
  •  Updating and Configuring Baselines 
  •  Appliance Security 
  •  Appliance Hardening and Firewall 
  •  Overview of Clustering 
  •  Configuring a Cluster 
  •  Fault Tolerance 
  •  Managing Machine Failures in a Cluster 
  •  Introduction to Consolidation 
  •  Consolidation Details
  • Introduction to Appliance Backups 
  •  Creating Backups from the UI 
  • Restoring the Appliance from a Backup 
  •  CLI Overview 
  •  File System Details 
  •  Discovery Services Syntax 
  •  Command Line Utilities: Overview 
  •  BMC Discovery Scheduling Tasks
  • Appliance Configuration Page 
  •  BMC Discovery Logs 
  •  BMC Discovery Upgrade 
  •  Introduction to Discovery REST API 
  • Introduction to Interacting with Discovery REST API

FAQs

A:BMC Software develops products used for a variety of purposes, including automation, service management, DevOps, workflow orchestration, AIOps, and security. It specialises in producing software that enables an autonomous digital company.

A: BMC Discovery for Multi-Cloud is an excellent tool for automating assets and mapping application dependencies to build a holistic view of all your data center resources, multi-cloud services, and their relationship.

  • Discovering cloud services.
  • Data provenance.
  • Exhaustive pattern library
  • Discovery service. 
  • Discovery queue.
  • Reasoning
  • Datastore
  • Clustering

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