BMC Discovery 24.x: Fundamentals On-Premises Administering
BMC Discovery is a datacenter discovery solution that automatically discovers datacenter inventory, configuration and relationship data, and maps applications to the IT infrastructure. BMC Discovery establishes the foundation for improving IT processes and productivity by providing timely and actionable insight to make informed decisions in IT service management, asset management, and infrastructure/operations management.
This course provides you with hands-on experience to change the appliance baseline, create clusters, and set up consolidation of data models. In addition, you will learn to create appliance backup and enable a Discovery run. Finally, you will download logs for customer support.
Major release:
BMC (Helix) Discovery 24.x
Good for:
Administrators
Course Delivery:
Instructor-Led Training (ILT) | 8 hours
Course Modules
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Appliance Baseline and Security Overview
- Introduction to Appliance Baselines
- Viewing Baseline Differences
- Updating and Configuring Baselines
- Appliance Security
- Appliance Hardening and Firewall
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Clustering
- Overview of Clustering
- Configuring a Cluster
- Fault Tolerance
- Managing Machine Failures in a Cluster
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Consolidation
- Need to consolidate appliances
- Review firewall requirements for successful consolidation
- Review conditions for effective consolidation
- Process for the Discovered Data Model
- Process for the Inferred Data Model
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Appliance Backup and Restore
- Introduction to Appliance Backups
- Creating Backups from the UI
- Restoring the Appliance from a Backup
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Using the BMC Discovery CLI
- CLI Overview
- File System Details
- Discovery Services Syntax
- Command Line Utilities: Overview
- BMC Discovery Scheduling Tasks
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Appliance Support and Upgrade
- Appliance Configuration Page
- BMC Discovery Logs
- BMC Discovery Upgrade
- License information
- Disk Configuration