I'm a part of the team implementing Topology and Foundation Discovery with CMDB 2.0. We had extended the CDM of CMDB to suite requirements.
Now, T&F Discovery comes with its own dataset, which to our "bombshell" is not extendable. So, you need to get all the discovered CI's and its relations in a dataset in CMDB and then recon it (with additional workflow) to push it in the sandbox/golden dataset. Lesson learnt – You need to check what T&F can discover and only then you should design CDM for CMDB. Thanks for listening, Sachin Salvi On 8/8/07, Don Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ** Thanks again for the insight. > > Don > > Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:07:36 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Discovery tools > To: [email protected] > > ** Another thing to consider is whether you need an agent-based tool. If > many of the IT resources you plan to track will not be usually accessible by > the Discovery tool (remote laptops, PDAs, servers behind another firewall, > etc.) you will only be able to track those with a local agent on those > boxen. It does cost more, though, so consider the gain/pain from your > company's perspective. > > Rick > > On 8/7/07, *Don Simmons* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ** Thanks for the insigth. > > Don > > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:50:04 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Discovery tools > To: [email protected] > > ** The BMC tools are the easiest to work with from the Remedy > Admin/Developer perspective, but they may not be what the rest of I.T. > wants. If you already own LANDesk, SMS, or something else you might want to > consider integrating with those instead, even though it would be more work. > For example, BMC's discovery tools give you reconciliation rules. If you > have multiple other data sources, it would become more time-consuming to > build them there (although it isn't a huge deal.) > > In my company's case, the management decided we had enough tools with an > overlap, so we didn't purchase them. > > Shawn Pierson > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > *On Behalf Of *Don Simmons > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 07, 2007 12:41 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Discovery tools > > > ** We are in the process of looking at Discovery tools to work with ITSM 7 > with CMDB 2.0. Looking at the BMC tool as well as the IBM tool. Are > there any got ya that we need to take into consideration? > > Don Simmons > > __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in > it___ > > > ------------------------------ > See what you're getting into…before you go there See > it!<http://newlivehotmail.com/?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_viral_preview_0507> > __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in > it___ > -- Thanks, Sachin Salvi _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
