IT Infrastructure Discovery

Eye of the Storm has a fully automatic device discovery capability, with out-of-the-box support for 400 devices. Entuity's Automatic Device Mapper allows support of hundreds of additional devices through recognizing devices through their attributes.

The discovery process can be restricted to various classes of IP subnets, and uses various techniques, including ICMP ping, SNMP Get, and TCP port probing to discover the IT infrastructure and its applications.

Application discovery is through matching discovered attributes with defined application types.

Once an entity has been discovered, its properties (port, VLAN, module, chassis information, etc.) are added to a centralized database to build up a centralized repository of management information. Eye of the Storm builds a model of the managed entities that are dependent on each other to provide an end-to-end service by:

• Discovering which applications reside on which servers
• Discovering which switch ports those servers are connected to
• Discovering how the various switches and routers are connected together.

With StormWorks, Entuity now has the capability to additionally discover and add any IT infrastructure entity to the Eye of the Storm management environment, quickly and with a minimum of coding.