Unveiling TADDM location tagging

IBM® Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) v7.2.1 FP3 provides a feature for automated location tagging. The accompanying TADDM documentation provides an introduction to the use of this feature; however it does not cover the side effects related to the use of access control lists that are introduced by enabling the location tagging feature.

This paper describes how to use the location tagging feature, and how the use of credentials stored in the TADDM access control list are affected when the location tagging feature is enabled. In addition best practice recommendations on how to maintain the location attribute of the CIs stored in the TADDM database – with or without use of the location tagging feature – is provided. In addition, this paper also provide guidance on how to visualize the location information in the TADDM GUI, and how to consume the location information in BIRT and Cognos reports.

In the appendix of this paper you will also find a custom server extension script that mimics the functionality for tagging ComputerSystems with a location, based on the ComputerSystems relationship to scopes and the association between anchor hosts and scopes. Using this extension, you can get the benefits of automatically populating the locationTag attribute for your ComputerSystem resources, without having to modify your credentials.

To read this white paper, click here: TADDM_LocationTagging_V1.0.pdf

The LocationTagging.py script in a text-based version that ca nbe loaded into your system is available here: LocationTagging.py