The Application-2-Infrastructure Mapping for an application is the information about the network, compute and storage used for the application system deployment. Application-2-Infrastructure Mapping is mission critical for system deployment life cycle. In most organizations the Application-2-Infrastructure information is not easily available and often it is tribal knowledge. There are tools in the market claims to auto discover and create the mapping for you. The reality is that there is no tool in market that can auto discover and create Application-2-Infrastructure Mapping for an enterprise applications portfolio. The first iteration of creating Application-2-Infrastructure Mapping is manual in nature. The Mapping tools such as BMC ADDM and HP ADDM will auto discover the infrastructure elements also known as application elements but application owner needs to define the mapping rules. The tools has library of these rules for some of the popular applications technology stack that doesn't cover 100% of an enterprise application portfolio. The standard library often miss to cover the custom implementations for a popular applications technology stack.

Sample Schema Elements for Application-2-Infrastructure Mapping:

• application serviceUrls
• serviceUrls DNS / GTM / GSLB / L7LB Configuration
• application VIPs / LTM / LSLB / L4LB Configuration
• Application Network Information
  • Internet / WAN
  • Zones / vLANs / ServerGroups
  • networkfirewallRules
• misc access and security controls
• web server(s)
• application server(s)
• database server(s)
• misc servers such as batch, messaging queue etc
• data replication methods and tools
• server(s) storage LUNs mappings
• server(s) NAS mappings
• server(s) technology stack
• server(s) Operating System Processes
• application dependencies - common/core services
• application dependencies - enterprise applications services
• application dependencies - external applications services