Best practices for BMC CMDB

This topic provides a library of topics that contain best practices, guidelines, and recommendations for BMC CMDB. You can access each topic from its link.

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  Creating a relationship rule
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  Service model design considerations
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  Best practices for extending the data model
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  Best practices for working with discovery data sources
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  Loading data into BMC CMDB
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  Notification Engine plug-in
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  Partitions and namespaces in the data model
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  Normalization best practices for product catalog implementation
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  Identification and documentation of business processes
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  Best practices for planning a service model
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  Planning a service model
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  Planning what data to store in the CMDB
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  Best practices for configuring load balancing for Atrium Integrator
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  Restricting access to the dataset
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  Deleting a dataset
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  Designing web services for BMC CMDB
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  When to use federated data
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  Setting up security for web services
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  Best practices when configuring Atrium Integrator
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  Configuring attributes by using the Service Context Administration window
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  Best Practices for loading data into BMC CMDB
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  Managing data sources and datasets in BMC CMDB
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  Computer system models
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  Configuring the Product Catalog for normalization
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  Best practices when preparing to load data into BMC CMDB
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  Best practices for propagating attributes to weak relationships
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  Network topology models
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  Drift Management
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  Modifying the administrator username and password used by web services
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  Software server models
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  Security policies for BMC Atrium Web Services
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  Best Practices for the Common Data Model
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  Best practices for managing datasets
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  Integrating BMC CMDB with Microsoft SCCM by using an adapter
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  Improving reconciliation performance by increasing threads
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  Best practices while defining the product categorization structure
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  Normalization best practices to achieve improved performance
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  Planning data reconciliation
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  Best practices for specific implementation scenarios
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  Mapping target attributes to source columns
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  Enabling audits for classes and attributes
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  Upgrading jobs to Atrium Integrator by using the Atrium Integrator Maintenance Tool
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  Best practices for setting ports with RPC program numbers or queues and threads
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  Accessing or retrieving federated data by creating federated relationship and data classes
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  Product Catalog access permissions
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  Steps in Atrium Integrator transformation
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  Business and technical services models
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  Organization hierarchies and people relationship models
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  Excluding classes and datasets for processing Dashboard parameters
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  Improving the performance of Atrium Integrator
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  Server and workstation models
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  Modifying product categorization attributes
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  Performing the CDM denormalization post validation tasks
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  Network and network device models
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  Software and hardware cluster models
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  Product categorization
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  Virtual systems design model
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  Software and application models
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  Creating a job in Atrium Integrator Spoon
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  Viewing and searching for product entries in the Product Catalog
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  CMDB Impact Simulator performance best practices
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  Auditing overview
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  Migrating data mappings to Atrium Integrator
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  Browsing source data in Atrium Integrator Spoon
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  Service Context for BMC Remedy ITSM applications
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  Relationships represented in a data model diagram
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  Optimizing CMDB performance
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  Normalization and best practice relationship rules
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  Storage entity models
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  Product categorization aliases for discovered CIs
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  Creating a job using the Integration Job Builder wizard
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  Accessing the Product Catalog
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  Modifying the data model by using Class Manager
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  Adding a relationship between CIs
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  Trying out the REST API call methods
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  Launching several copies of a step to improve the performance of Atrium Integrator
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  Reconciliation best practices
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  Overview of normalization modes
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  Preparing for normalization
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  Best practices for configuring server queue settings
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  Creating an Atrium Integrator job to import data
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  Summary of changes to the Common Data Model
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  Improving performance of reconciliation
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  Configuring classes for normalization
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  Qualification conventions for reconciliation activities
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  Creating or modifying classes by using Class Manager
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  Creating an impact rule
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  Purging soft-deleted data by using the Reconciliation Engine
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  Normalization failover for scheduled batch jobs
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  Investigating CMDB data issues
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  Recommendations for customized reconciliation job
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  CMDB Impact Simulator issues
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  Configuring the Normalization Engine
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  Mapping discovery categorization to product categorization
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  Namespaces and reconciliation
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  Standard reconciliation jobs
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  Creating a Version Rollup rule
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  Creating a Suite Rollup rule
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  Creating a reconciliation job
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  Merging duplicate CIs by reconciling data from multiple sources
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  Monitoring a reconciliation job
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  Normalization process

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