Configuring intelligent server automation
Configuration roadmap
The following table lists the configuration tasks that are required to implement this use case.
Task | Products involved | Description and reference |
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Step 1. Perform an initial scan. | BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping | If you have not already conducted an initial scan of your server estate, perform the following steps:
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Step 2. Prepare for reconciliation. | BMC Server Automation, BMC BladeLogic Decision Support for Server Automation | Before you can use BMC BladeLogic Atrium Integration, you must prepare to reconcile the data in BMC Server Automation with the data in BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping. You do this by running prepackaged BMC Server Automation jobs that were created as part of the installation and setting some property values in the Property Dictionary. For detailed instructions about these steps, see Reconciling discovered data. |
Step 3. Create indexes. | BMC Remedy AR System | Before you can use BMC BladeLogic Atrium Integration, you must use BMC Remedy AR System to set up indexes for the data that BMC BladeLogic Atrium Integration transfers to the BMC Atrium CMDB. |
Step 4. Execute jobs. | BMC Atrium Integrator | Installing BMC BladeLogic Atrium Integration automatically sets up the BL_LOAD_SRVR_PROPS job, which populates the supported classes in the BMC Atrium CMDB with a dataset ID of BMC.IMPORT.BL. You must execute this job. For more information, see Running a job from the Atrium Integrator console and Managing Atrium Integrator job schedule in the BMC Atrium Core documentation. |
Step 5. Run a reconciliation job. | BMC Atrium Integrator | Run a reconciliation job to move data into the production data set. For information about reconciliation jobs, see Reconciliation jobs in the BMC Atrium Core documentation. |
Step 6. Enable BMC BladeLogic Integration to Atrium in BMC Server Automation. | BMC Server Automation | To enable BMC BladeLogic Atrium Integration, you must use the blasadmin utility in BMC Server Automation and set the EnableAtriumIntegration option to True. After setting this value, you must restart the BMC Server Automation Application Server. |
Step 7. Configure connections to BMC Server Automation and run the Atrium Import Job | BMC Server Automation | The Atrium Import Job defines properties for managed servers. It generates a BUSINESS_SERVICES property, which shows a list of business services dependent on the specific server. It also creates a custom property class called LifeCycle with the following properties: RECONCILIATION_ID, EXPIRY_DATE, CREATE_DATE, AND OWNER_NAME. Instances of these properties are assigned to each server. Schedule the Atrium Import Job to run weekly at first. After your system appears stable, you can schedule the job to run less frequently because business service CIs do not change often. For more information, see Transferring business service data from BMC Atrium CMDB to BMC Server Automation. |
Step 8. (optional) Add domain names to servers and map the Domain attribute to DNS_DOMAIN_NAME property | BMC Server Automation, BMC AR/Atrium CMDB | This step is optional and required only if BMC BladeLogic Atrium Integration and BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping want to publish information about the same target servers into Atrium CMDB. This step ensures that FQDN (Fully-Qualified Domain Name) of the target servers matches with the names that BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping publishes in Atrium CMDB. For more information about adding domain names, see Adding domain names to the servers in BMC Server Automation. For information about mapping the Domain attribute, see Mapping the BMC Atrium CMDB Domain attribute. |
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