BAC 7 Features SiteScope EMS Topology

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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