UD120 – Universal Discovery Essentials

Target group

This course is recommended for application or system support personnel or anyone who needs an overview of the capabilities of Universal Discovery.

Course structure

Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Identify the evolution of the Configuration Management System (CMS) from the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), the need for CMS, and working of CMS
• Define the concept of Universal Discovery (UD) and be able to identify its applications and types
• Identify the architecture and deployment process of UD, and the installation and setup of the data flow probe and its log files
• Define the concepts of discovery adapters, discovery jobs, discovery scripts, and other discovery resources
• Use the Universal Discovery module to perform application dependency mapping discovery and inventory discovery
• Use zone-based discovery method and discovery activities
• Design and build agentless and agent-based discoveries, and use inventory scanners
• Work with the Software Library Viewer and various inventory tools
• Use the application recognition process and discovery rules
• Use the Discovery Troubleshooter
• Configure and Troubleshoot Automated Service Modeling (ASM)
• Use UD to support UCMDB integrations