Discovery
HPE Operations Bridge provides fast, accurate, and continuous discovery of your IT environment. Gain a real time understanding of application service models with Automatic Discovery. Discover topology information that relates objects and their dependencies in your IT landscape. Automated Service Modeling automatically discovers and models critical business services and business application in a top-down manner, starting from an entry point, such as the URL of the service.
This discovered information is used to build and continuously update a model of the IT environment that supports business services. This dynamically updated model, called the Run-time Service Model (RTSM), is an important differentiator for the HPE Operations Bridge.
Discovery is enabled by agent-based and agentless data collectors, as well as third-party connectors that include identity and topology information from your existing legacy management tools. Discovery can also be driven by a specific discovery engine called Universal Discovery, with which the RTSM is compatible, accelerating the creation of that model.
Use case 1: Validating the availability of cloud providers
Scenario: Validate the availability of your cloud provider.
Solution: Discover available Virtual Machines (VMs) to assure yourself that you are monitoring the appropriate VMs. In succession, manage your VMs by using Operations Bridge capabilities, for example a management pack. You can then display the KPI over time for server availability, the service and application performance and availability, and the metrics that are used by the management pack.
Use case 2: Cloud resources are suffering from repetitive disruption
Scenario: You have a repetitive issue with one of the applications in your private cloud, and want to find out what the cause is.
Solution: Use discovery to relate the infrastructure of your IT environment to the monitored application. Alerts regarding the application issue are generated and shown as events in your monitoring environment. Event correlation then relates those events with the events detected on the infrastructure.
By using this solution, you will be able to see what the root cause is, and evaluate if the service provided by your cloud supplier is delivered as promised.