Gordon, We have just gone through this exercise. We did a couple of proof of concepts with other vendor products as well as BMC's Discovery tools. In general, BMC's Discovery was the best fit for us, but the real clincher was ease of integration with the Atrium CMDB. If we were to go with any other tool, we would have had to re-do the integration any time either tool (on the Atrium side or the discovery side) was upgraded or changed. By sticking with BMC products, the onus is on them to maintain that integration. <snip cynical commentary>
Through BMC's customer referral program we had talked to another company that faced the same issues, and had independently reached the same conclusions. They said they were happy with BMC's Discovery tools. We have yet to implement it ourselves, so I can't offer much beyond that. Thad Esser Remedy Developer "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours."-- Richard Bach "Frank, Gordon M. (CMS/CTR)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)" <arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> 09/16/2008 04:51 AM Please respond to arslist@ARSLIST.ORG To arslist@ARSLIST.ORG cc Subject Re: Discovery Tools ** Does BMC Discovery handle UNIX and Linux Servers? If it does handle UNIX and Linux, can you give me brief insight into how it has to be set up? My impression is that you BMC Discovery is not true discovery on UNIX and Linux. You have to tell it everything which is not discovery as I would define it. What?s happening with Blade Logic? BMC purchased this and I have heard various good reviews. Does this take the place of BMC Discovery at some point? David Easter are you out there? Gordon M. Frank Lockheed Martin From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Deaver Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 4:53 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Discovery Tools Ok, I have to state the obvious. If you are looking to purchase a discovery product, wouldn't it make sense to buy the one that goes with your CMDB out of the box, BMC Discovery? Kelly Deaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes, I work for BMC. This post reflects the opinions of the poster and not the official opinion of BMC) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Discovery Tools From: "Webster, Basil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, September 16, 2008 2:44 am To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Hi Gordon, John is quite right that those integration kits are available for download, free. I don't think they are supported but speak under correction. We looked at the Lan2CMDB as we have LanDesk as our discovery tool. The download basically gives you everything which is great but, there is an assumption that one has the LanDesk asset management module too. The integration reads from the tables generated by this module. I think that the asset management module brings the vast data base together. For us it got a bit tricky to explain to the business why we needed to purchase the asset management module on LanDesk only to use it for the integration. Otherwise it was not required and we are wanting to do the asset management from the BMC CMDB. I am only giving you a heads up so that you can make sure that you look into any downloads in depth and the requirements before you thunder on and find that it won't work for you. Good luck. Kind Regards, Basil Webster Remedy Developer Siemens Southern Africa IT Solutions and Services (Pty) Ltd Infrastructure Operations 300 Janadel Avenue, Halfway House, 1685 T : +27 11 652 7523 F : +27 11 652 7501 M : +27 82 452 9389 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.siemens.co.za -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bilinski, John Sent: 15 September 2008 21:43 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Discovery Tools Here are some Discovery Tools that I know for a fact that you can download the Open-Source Integration projects from the Developers network to integrate one of these discovery tools below with CMDB 2.1: - LANDesk - Microsoft SMS - HP Open View -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank, Gordon M. (CMS/CTR) Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 3:35 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Discovery Tools Hello, What types of Discovery Tools are available to discover attributes on Windows, UNIX and Linux client and server platforms? I would like to fully populate a 2.1 CMDB with hardware, software, people, processes and peripherals. Also, is there any feel for cost per client or agent or however they price such tools? Are there any good white papers on this? Gordon M. 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