Configuring a CI Type as a service on the TrueSight console
You can select different CI Types to be configured as Services on the TrueSight console. This feature enables you to monitor different CI Types as Services on the Services page.
When you select a specific CI Type as a service, the relevant CIs of that CI Type are listed as Services on the Services page. Once these CIs are listed as Services, you can perform any of the following operations :
- Monitor these CIs as services from the TrueSight console.
- Click a service to view its details.
- View the Service Model relevant to that CI on the Service Monitoring page.
You can configure either predefined CI Types or user-defined CI Types as Services. Predefined CI Types are already defined CI Types available in TrueSight Infrastructure Management, for example Application, DataBase, Business Process, Organization etc. The user-defined CI Types can be created in the BMC Atrium CMDB. The following sections explain the prerequisites and the procedure to configure CI Types as services.
- Before you begin
- To configure a CI Type as a service
- To configure additional CI Types as a services
- Where to go from here
Before you begin
To configure a CI Type as a Service, ensure that you have Solution Administrator level access.
- To configure a predefined CI Type as a Service, ensure that the TrueSight Infrastructure Management is registered as a component with TrueSight Presentation Server.
- To configure a user-defined CI Type as a Service, ensure that the BMC Atrium CMDB is integrated with the TrueSight Infrastructure Management, and this TrueSight Infrastructure Management is registered as a component with TrueSight Presentation Server.
To configure a CI Type as a service
The following video (6:06) illustrates how to configure CI Types as services to monitor them on TrueSight console.
Perform the following sequence of steps to configure a CI Type as a service:
- In the TrueSight console, select Monitoring > Services.
- On the Services page, click the action menu
Select CI Types to configure as Services dialog box is displayed with a list of CI Types.
Select a check box for choosing a specific CI Type. To search a specific CI Type, type the CI Type name in the search box and press Enter.
- Click Save to apply the configuration.
After the configurations are applied successfully, these CIs can be monitored as Services on the Services page.
To configure additional CI Types as a services
You can configure a maximum of 17 predefined CI Types as services from the Services page of the TrueSight console. The following table represents the complete list of predefined CI Types available in TrueSight Infrastructure Management. To configure any additional CI Types (predefined and user-defined) those are not listed when you click Configure CI Types option on the Services page, run the tssh command as explained in the following section.
CI Type Name | Icon | CI Type Name | Icon | CI Type Name | Icon | CI Type Name | Icon |
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Activity | Connectivity Segment | Logical Entity | Storage Extent | ||||
Application | Database | Logical System Component | Storage Subsystem | ||||
Application Infrastructure | | Database Storage | Mainframe | Storage Volume | |||
Application Service | | Disk Drive | Media | System | |||
Application System | Disk Partition | MF Coupling Facility | System Component | ||||
Base Element | File System | Offering | System Resource | ||||
Business Process | Floppy Drive | Operating System | System Service | ||||
Business Service | Hardware Package | Organization | System Software | ||||
CD ROM DRIVE | Hardware System Component | Physical Location | Tape Drive | ||||
Chassis | IP Connectivity Subnet | Remote File System | Transaction | ||||
Cluster | IPX Connectivity Network | Resource Pool | UPS | ||||
Collection | LAN | Service Offering | User Community | ||||
Concrete Collection | LNs Collection | Service Offering Instance | Virtual System Enabler | ||||
Connectivity Collection | Local File System | Software | WAN | ||||
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| Logical Disk | Software Server | User-defined CI Type |
- Navigate to the <Presentation Server Installation Directory>\truesightpserver\bin directory location.
Run the following command at the command prompt to configure additional CI Types as services:
#Syntaxtssh properties set include.citypes.as.service <CI Types list seperated by comma>#Exampletssh properties set include.citypes.as.service bmc_lan,bmc_wan,bmc_collectionRun the following command to reload the properties set in the preceding command:
tssh properties reload- In the TrueSight console, select Monitoring > Services.
- On the Services page, click the action menu
Select CI Types to configure as Services dialog box is displayed with a list of CI Types. This list now displays additional CI Types those were included through tssh command as highlighted in the following figure:
- Select check boxes representing LAN,WAN, and Collection CI Types.
- Click Save to apply the configuration.
After the configurations are applied successfully, these CIs can be monitored as Services on the Services page.
Where to go from here