PDF: Application Discovery for Beginners

Welcome to the E-Oasis MicroGuide Series, a set of short guides to advance your knowledge for specific technology challenges. This series is tailored for beginners to explain unfamiliar processes to navigate this bumpy terrain. Seek expert guidance when encountering complexities in your environment.

Application Discovery for Beginners

An important part of a datacenter migration is gathering your application inventory and understanding how to segment and group them as part of your overall Move Playbook. 

The challenges in this phase are numerous, including:

• No domain knowledge exists for long deployed and forgotten applications
• No documentation exists explaining the application dependencies, their service accounts, or even their true function
• Sometimes hundreds of configuration options govern these applications
• Vendor support has long been expired

This micro guide helps beginners classify their applications, understand the triage criteria, and learn helpful command line tips.