Creating advanced publishing environments

Basic steps to create advanced test environments

Step	What to do	Additional reference
1. Determine the cells to use and create if necessary.	Determine the cells to use and create if necessary.	See BMC Impact Solutions Infrastructure Administration Guide
2. Register any new cells in BMC Atrium Core Console (which automatically creates them in BMC Atrium CMDB).		See BMC Impact Solutions Infrastructure Administration Guide
3. Determine the source of the service model data (another environment or a BAROC source file).	Use the `penv init` parameter SourceBarocMgmtData . Create a BAROC source file.
4. Define the environment.	Execute a CLI command `penv open`
5. Enter the data in the BMC Atrium CMDB.	Execute a CLI command `penv init`
If cells are running, this initializes cells with this data.	Execute a CLI command `penv init`
6. Publish the objects to the cell.	Execute a CLI command `publish`
7. Troubleshoot problems.	See Troubleshooting

You use the CLI command penv and the pclient.conf file to create, modify, and delete publishing environments. For more information about these topics, see the Infrastructure Management Command Line Interface Reference Guide.

In an Atrium CMDB Publish environment, the cell is automatically initialized with Product Short management data of the asset dataset of the environment when you execute the CLI command publish.

Home cell and home cell alias

If all CIs and relationships are being published to one cell, you can assign a home cell by

Defining it in the CLI command penv when you define the environment
Defining it after the environment is opened in a CLI command penv with the action command set

If home cell is defined, cell aliases, as defined in the BMC Atrium CMDB, are ignored. All service model data in that environment is published to the cell specified in HomeCell, even if HomeCellAlias contains a cell alias that points to another cell.

Cell aliases

If you do not have home cell defined, then cell aliases are required. Using Remedy User or an API program, you must assign cell alias-to-cell name values (per environment) in the BMC Atrium CMDB form, PN:CellAliases.

Set the attribute EnvId to the ID of the publishing environment
Set the attribute CellAlias to the alias
Set the attribute CellName to the name of a cell that is registered in BMC Atrium Core Console (registered in the PN:CellInformation form)

You can set a default cell by setting CellAlias to null. In this way, the attribute HomeCellAlias for individual CIs is not required to publish. If you create an instance in the BMC Atrium CMDB form, PN:CellAliases, like the following:

Environment	CellAlias	CellName
EnvId		Arwad

then every CI in BMC.ASSET.EnvId that has no value in HomeCellAlias is published to the cell arwad.

Creating advanced publishing environments

Home cell and home cell alias

Cell aliases

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