Thanks for the feedback. It is greatly appreciated. Don
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:10:04 +0530From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Discovery toolsTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -0700From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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 -0500From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Discovery toolsTo: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ** 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 SimmonsSent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 12:41 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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! __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ -- Thanks,Sachin Salvi __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ _________________________________________________________________ Learn. Laugh. Share. Reallivemoms is right place! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
