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BAC 7 Features SiteScope EMS Topology. 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.
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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).
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…