Creating and managing custom servers

You can create custom servers to discover and categorize applications that are not, by default, supported by the Discovery Library Adapter for z/OS® (DLA). This is an advanced technique for configuring the z/OS DLA to discover applications that it does not know about by default.

Your infrastructure might contain software applications and server types, such as custom database applications (servers), that are not automatically categorized by the z/OS DLA. Any address space with a TCP listening port can be discovered and created in output books.

You can define a custom server to create a template that sets up the membership rules for the custom server. Custom servers are displayed in the topology and you can view details about them. Although these details are not as complete as those provided for supported applications (servers), defining custom servers allows all components in your infrastructure to participate in the topology and comparisons.