Using the operator console to monitor BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management objects

If you have integrated BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management into your Infrastructure Management environment, you can use the operator console to view the cloud objects and monitor their status.

The cloud objects displayed in the operator console are defined in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management. You can configure Infrastructure Management to retrieve the cloud topology from BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and display the objects in the navigation tree in the operator console. You can use the various console views and tools to monitor these objects in the operator console. For more information about enabling this functionality, see Enabling cloud topology consuming in Infrastructure Management.
After you perform the necessary configuration tasks, the Cloud Resources node is displayed in the navigation tree of the Operations Console and the following nodes are displayed under the Cloud Resources node:

• Locations: define where the pods are located
• Pods: as defined in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, represent a physical level-2 portion of the cloud bound by a set of physical network equipment, such as routers, firewalls, and load balancers. Pods contain one or more network containers. Onboarding pods add capacity incrementally to a data center.
• Network containers: as defined in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, represent virtual layer-2 segments of the cloud that are used to isolate workloads or tenants based on specific policies and rules.
• Compute Pools: as defined in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, logical groupings of similar compute resources provisioned into the cloud. Compute pools are mapped to network containers.

Under the Services node, service offerings are displayed. Service offerings, as defined in BMC Cloud Lifecyle Management, represent the way an IT organization makes a service available to its customers. You can view the service offerings by either expanding the Services node in the navigation tree or selecting the Services node and then selecting one of the following console views: Tile view, Canvas view, or Heat Map view. You can drill down from the tiles displayed in these views to display the service offering instances associated with each service offering, or you can select a service offering in the navigation tree to display the service offering instances in the console views. Service offering instances represent specific deployments of a service offering.