EMC SMARTS Application Discovery Manager (ADM) for Academia provides education institutions with an easy-to-implement, cost-effective way to discover, map, and manage complex relationships between applications and IT infrastructure. With ADM for Academia, information this is collected can be federated to a customer’s realtime Configuration Management Database (CMDB), enabling users to quickly correlate infrastructure incidents to application impact based on realtime models.
Key Benefits
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Automated visibility — Quickly correlate infrastructure incidents to application impact.
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Automated management — Enrich your Configuration Management Database (CMDB) with realtime dependency mapping.
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Resource planning for business continuance — Maximize resources and minimize overall vulnerabilities through better understanding of application vulnerabilities.
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Centralized repository for change management — Store information in a repository that maintains all configuration details, including relationships. The repository also tracks details as they change.
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Application fingerprinting — Rapidly classify applications out of the box.
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CMDB dashboards and analytics — Track changes, map, and report based on detailed impact analysis, inventory, usage, and dependency data.
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High-definition discovery — Gather detailed configuration item information and monitor traffic analysis in real time.
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Integration and federation — Enable integration with third-party and home-grown CMDBs.


