Administering

This section contains information about administering the following BMC CMDB components:

Task	Reference
Configure the core CMDB components	Configuring core CMDB components and plug-ins
Setting ports that communicate with various components	Best practices for setting ports with RPC program numbers or queues and threads
Share business service CI information with other applications	Setting up service context to share business service CI information with other applications
Provide access to the CMDB Dashboard for a better user experience.	Configuring the URL to access CMDB Portal through Mid Tier
Understand the relationships between users, groups, and roles.	Roles and permissions
Control users' access to specific features of the CMDB Dashboard.	Providing users with permissions to access the new CMDB UI using groups and roles
Configure the AR System server to allow your users to open a CI in the old flex UI in sandbox mode	Configuring the default web path of the Mid Tier server in AR System Administration Console
Customize how CMDB calculates health and completeness metrics on the dashboard	Configuring Key Performance Indicators for CMDB
Exclude classes and and datasets used to calculate the dashboard metrics	Excluding classes and datasets for processing Dashboard parameters
Promote CDM definitions across environments using BMC Remedy Deployment Application	Promoting CMDB CDM Definitions across environments
Manage the approval status, categorization, development status, and other attributes of products	Managing the Product Catalog
Define archiving criteria for configuration items (CIs) in the CMDB	Archiving CMDB data
Configure BMC Atrium Core Web Services	Configuring BMC CMDB web services
Managing web services security policies	Access and authentication for web services
Modify the data model	Modifying the data model by using Class Manager
Access external data through the CMDB	Making external data available in CMDB by using Federation Manager

Administering

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