Why BMC Helix Discovery Reigns Supreme

In the vast, often bewildering landscape of enterprise IT, finding a tool that can map your entire infrastructure—across public, private, and hybrid clouds, data centers, and everything in between—is like finding a unicorn. But guess what? BMC Helix Discovery is that unicorn. It doesn’t just find your assets; it uncovers hidden connections, maps dependencies, and gives you the power to understand your entire ecosystem with one tool. Let’s see why BMC Helix Discovery is leagues ahead of the competition, with some juicy details on protocols, patterns, and other capabilities.

Protocols that go the distance

Let’s be honest: a discovery tool is only as good as the protocols it supports. BMC Helix Discovery doesn’t mess around here. It supports a treasure trove of protocols, which means it can dig into every corner of your IT universe:

• Private cloud protocols: For on-premises systems, BMC supports SSH, SNMP, WMI, JDBC, PowerShell, and even NMAP. Translation? It’ll sniff out every operating system, application, database, container, server hardware, and network device you have. It also covers VMware and OpenStack, so you get deep visibility into virtualized environments.
• Public cloud protocols: BMC leverages IP, REST and SOAP APIs to discover assets in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM Cloud.

The secret sauce: BMC’s legendary pattern library and blueprints

BMC Helix Discovery’s secret weapon is its powerful pattern library and blueprints. Together, they’re like a detailed roadmap and toolkit rolled into one, helping IT teams understand what’s in their infrastructure and how it all connects. Let’s break down why this is important, what a pattern actually is, and why BMC’s library goes above and beyond the competition.

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