Exporting discovery data to CCMDB, TADDM, and TBSM

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Configure and use the Discovery Library Adapter (DLA) to collect data on network resources and relationships from Network Manager for import into other systems.

About this task

The DLA collects data from Network Manager and creates XML Discovery Library books (also known as Identity Markup Language, or IdML books) that contain data on the discovered resources and their relationships known to the system. The books conform to the Tivoli® Common Data Model (CDM) version 2.10.10. For more information on the Tivoli CDM, go to http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4389.html.

The Discovery Library books can be imported into other systems for which a Discovery Library Reader™ exists. The DLA supports both IPv4 and IPv6.

Note: To load Discovery Library (IdML) books containing information about virtual machines into TADDM, you must have TADDM 7.2.1 Fix Pack 1 or later.

The DLA is installed by default with Network Manager on the GUI server. It is installed into the following directory: $NCHOME/precision/adapters/ncp_dla.