BMC Discovery Adapter and Connector

FlexNet Manager Suite 2022 R2 (On-Premises)

BMC Discovery is a tool for collecting hardware and software information, and can be a useful inventory source as input to FlexNet Manager Suite to help in calculating license consumption as part of assessing your overall license compliance.

FlexNet Manager Suite supports two different methods of collecting data from BMC Discovery. Using the distinction made throughout this reference (see Inventory Adapters and Connectors), these are:

• An XML-based adapter that first extracts data into an SQL staging database for mapping into the data fields within the FlexNet Manager Suite database
• A direct connector to BMC Discovery that allows automatic upload of the data directly to the FlexNet Manager Suite database.

Both the adapter and the connector are documented in the following chapters. Please ensure that you keep the distinction clear and that you read the topics that relate to your chosen technology.

Supported versions

BMC Discovery was previously known as Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM), and was renamed from version 11.

• Adapter: The BMC Discovery adapter supports inventory import from the following releases of the BMC tool: 9.0, 10.0–10.2 (ADDM), 11.0–22.2
• Connector: The BMC Discovery connector supports inventory import from the following releases of the BMC tool: 20.02 (12.0), 20.08 (12.1), 21.05 (12.2).