How does the BMC Change Management integration work?
When you configure a change request on a CI for maintenance in BMC Change Management, and update its status to Scheduled or higher, a notification is sent to Operations Management. Operations Management displays the change request as change event in the TrueSight console, and creates an automated blackout policy and a scheduled down time for the change event.
An Operations Management change event is initiated when the change request has reached the Scheduled state and the event is closed when the change request reaches Completed state.
Notification scenarios
The following table lists the possible notification scenarios and their outcomes:
Scenario | Activity | Outcome |
---|---|---|
No CI is associated with the task and request. | None | No notification is sent to Operations Management. |
| Notification for the CI associated with the change request is sent to Operations Management. | |
| The following notifications are sent to Operations Management:
| |
Different CIs are associated with the task and change request. | Move the change request (one CI associated with it) to Scheduled state. | Notification for CI associated with the change request is sent to Operations Management. |
| The following notifications are sent to Operations Management corresponding to the CI associated with the task:
| |
The same CI is associated with the change and task request. |
| Notification for the CI associated with the task is sent to Operations Management. |
Supported request statuses
The integration between BMC Change Management and Operations Management supports the following request statuses.
Change request statuses
- Scheduled
- Implementation In Progress
- Completed
- Closed
- Pending
- Cancelled
Task request statuses:
- Staged
- Assigned
- Pending
- Work In Progress
Click the Related Event icon in the TrueSight console to view all of the task events associated to the change event.
For more information about change request and task request statuses, see the BMC Change Management User Guide.
Communicating between BMC Change Management and Operations Management
BMC Change Management sends change and task requests to Operations Management through RESTful web services.