Administering
This section contains information about administering the following BMC CMDB components:
| Task or concept | Reference |
|---|---|
| Create and manage datasets and also set permissions to the datasets. | Managing data sources and datasets in BMC CMDB |
| Configure the core CMDB components | Configuring core CMDB components and plug-ins |
| AR System plug-ins related to CMDB such as Atrium Integrator Pentaho, Dynamic Service Modeling, Federated data, Impact Simulator, and so on. | Remedy AR System plug-ins related to CMDB |
| 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 |
| Setting up normalization engine permissions for multi-tenancy and normalization rules to set row-level permissions. | Setting the Normalization Engine permissions for multi-tenancy |
| Control users' access to specific features of the CMDB Dashboard. | Providing users with permissions to access the CMDB Portal by 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 |
| Prepare your data for normalization. | Preparing for normalization |
| 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 CMDB 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. | Accessing external data through CMDB by using Federation |
| Create a service catalog to define the resources that deliver business services, models their behaviors and functional relationships, and manages the delivery of the resulting services. | Creating a service catalog in the Atrium Core Console |
| Build a service model to be able to see how CI failures propagate and impact the upstream services. | Building a service model |
| Monitor the impact of various events on a business service. | Monitoring the impact of events on a business service |
| Enable audit for classes and attributes | Auditing changes to CIs |
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