Downloading BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 You can download BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 from the BMC EPD site It is shipped as a virtual appliance, so you must include Virtual Machine as a platform in your EPD profile. If you do not, none of the BMC Atrium Discovery 8.x products are displayed.

This is the home page for BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 documentation. The documentation is divided into the following sections:

• BMC Atrium Discovery – provides an introduction to BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping (BMC Atrium Discovery). It is intended for any staff who are unfamiliar with BMC Atrium Discovery.
• Release Notes – accompany each product release and provide details of new features introduced in that release as well as known issues/workarounds. For information on between-release updates or EFix releases, see the readme file that is provided with the update.
• Getting Started – provides a brief introduction and step by step guide to starting work with BMC Atrium Discovery. It contains much useful information for new users of BMC Atrium Discovery.
• User Guide – describes the day to day use of the product. It is intended for IT operations staff and managers who are using and managing BMC Atrium Discovery, including viewing, creating, exporting, searching, and reporting on data from an infrastructure or a business perspective. Information on the Search and Reporting Service is also provided.
• Configuration Guide – describes how to set up and configure the product. It is intended for IT operations staff who are responsible for setting up, managing and configuring BMC Atrium Discovery and any associated slaves. It describes options on the BMC Atrium Discovery user interface that are only available to users with administration privileges as well as command line access to certain parts of the product which are not accessible through the UI.
• Deployment Guide – provides information on pre-requisites for a successful deployment of BMC Atrium Discovery, information on the appliance specification and performance data.
• Application Modeling – describes how to use BMC Atrium Discovery to create and maintain a model of your business applications. This includes details of the BMC Atrium Discovery model and focuses on the different types of nodes available. It also includes information on the Pattern Language TPL. It is intended for business modelers and system administrators who are responsible for modeling business applications. It assumes familiarity with BMC Atrium Discovery.
• Troubleshooting – provides information on possible problems that you may encounter, troubleshooting and debugging tips, and how to collect data that Customer Support may need to solve problems.

Download a PDF version of the BMC Atrium Discovery documentation set

PDF Download You can download a PDF version of the entire BMC Atrium Discovery documentation set here. Be aware that the PDF document is simply a snapshot and will be outdated should updates occur on the wiki. The PDF file is generated from the wiki on each request so it may take some time before the download dialog is displayed.