— Datasheet BMC Atrium Discovery Solution Automate discovery and dependency mapping to efficiently find and manage your IT assets PRODUCT DESCRIPTION KEY FEATURES Atrium Discovery Solution combines the power of BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping and BMC Client Discovery into a comprehensive discovery solution across data center assets and client devices. • Inventory your IT assets—know what BUSINESS CHALLENGE Maintaining accurate and up-to-date IT asset information is more easily said than done. Manual discovery is a time-consuming and error-prone process that can be nearly impossible to maintain over time—especially for IT organizations under pressure to respond to fast-changing business needs. Autodiscovery is now a foundational requirement for every IT organization. In addition, tracking assets has been complicated by the ever-changing locations of client-side devices and the need to maximize software investments. BMC SOLUTION BMC Atrium Discovery Solution is an integrated toolset that unifies the process for discovering the broadest range of IT assets—physical, virtual, network, and client—documenting the relationships between them, and continuously updating the BMC Atrium CMDB to reflect dynamic changes to that data. By unifying these comprehensive discovery capabilities into a unique and integrated solution, BMC ensures that you always have an accurate picture of your IT environment, both hardware and software, and eliminates the need for fragmented tools that require cumbersome and error-prone manual steps. you own and exactly how those assets are being used • Reduce costs to maintain inventory, configuration, and relationship data • Increase data accuracy through automation • Improve IT agility and business alignment KEY BENEFITS • Extensive content library covers a broad range of assets including servers, software, network, and client devices • High-performance discovery engine delivers the highest quality, speed, and scalability • Reports and dashboards increase data-driven decisions • Powerful search and analytics enable data-driven decisions • Software and hardware reference libraries provide additional data center insight Software Context shows how the object you are viewing connects into the rest of the model. PRODUCT DETAILS Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping Extended Data Pack provides two reference libraries for additional data center insight. The software reference library provides vendor dates for software end-of-life, end-of-support, and end-ofextended-support for various data center operating systems and software products. The hardware reference library contains vendor specifications for data center hardware power consumption and thermal ratings. BMC Client Discovery delivers discovery of assets outside your datacenter providing detailed hardware, software, and custom inventory data for your devices. Any asset with an IP address will be automatically discovered. Operating systems, applications, and security solutions will be normalized based against a best-of-breed industry software catalog. FOR MORE INFORMATION To learn more about BMC Atrium Discovery, please visit bmc.com/discovery Improve software planning with end-of-life and end-of-support data. 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