Differences between Atrium Core Console and BMC CMDB Portal

You can use the Service Catalog to:

• Create a new service and service offerings, and request actions and options
• Search and view all services that have been defined
• Filter the currently displayed set of services by any of their associated attributes

See Administering service models and the Service Catalog .

Service Catalog is deprecated.

By using Service Modeling, you can do almost everything that you could do with Service Catalog. For example, you can create business services, service offerings, requestable offerings, and so on.

See Managing a service catalog by using CMDB Explorer.

For fresh installations, we recommend you to use BMC Digital Workplace Advanced to create and manage services.

See Creating and managing the service catalog .

When migrating from one environment to another, you can export and import the normalization settings.

See Exporting and importing normalization configurations .

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We recommend you to use Data Migration to import and export the normalization configurations.

For example, when migrating from a development to production environment, you can export or import the following normalization settings:

• Job schedules
  Export or import the NE:JobSchedule form that is used to store NE job schedule information.
• Dataset normalization settings
  Export or import the NE:DatasetOptions form that is used to store dataset configuration to run NE job. This form contains options for all datasets.
• CMDB class settings
  Export or import the NE:AttributesInfo form that is used to store class configuration.

• Product Catalog alias mapping

  Export or import PCT:ProductCatalogAliasMappingForm
  to export or import alias mapping information.

See Migrating data

You can create a Rename activity to rename datasets.

See Renaming datasets by using the Reconciliation Engine .

You can export reconciliation definitions from one server and import them on another server.

See Exporting reconciliation definitions .

You can migrate Atrium Integrator jobs from one computer to another by using the Export Configuration tool.

See Migrating Atrium Integrator jobs and transformations from one computer to another .

We recommend you to use the Export Repository and Import Repository options in Atrium Integrator Spoon to migrate Atrium Integrator jobs.

See Migrating Atrium Integrator jobs and transformations.

You can generate reports to know the details of the health of your CMDB.

See Accessing BMC Atrium CMDB Dashboard .

We recommend that you use Remedy Smart Reporting for generating reports.

See Configuration Management reports and dashboard .

You can use deprecation mappings to deprecate classes and attributes.

See Creating deprecation mappings .

You can save the view of your data model as a .png image by using Export View As Image.

See https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/ac91/Saving+a+view+as+an+image

You can print the data model by using the Print view.

See Class Manager user interface .

You can view classes in the Table view of the display pane in Class Manager.

The left pane of Class Manager displays the hierarchy of classes in a tree view. You can expand the tree to view subclasses and super classes of a class. You can also search for a class by filtering by the class name.

You can specify the direction for viewing the data model by using the Layout options:

• Compact
• Left to Right
• Top to Bottom

See Layout control options .

The left pane of Class Manager displays the hierarchy of classes in a tree view. You can expand the tree to view subclasses and super classes of a class.

While creating a class, you could define a class as a Final class to prevent sub classes from being created for the new class. 

See Defining class properties in the Class Manager .

While creating a class, you can define a class as a Singleton class to represent a unique CI.

See Defining class properties in the Class Manager .

You can populate the view in Atrium Explorer based on your requirement and save the view.

See BMC Atrium Explorer views .

You can export a view in CMDB Explorer in BMC CMDB Portal in various formats, such as PDF, PNG, SVG, and Print.

You can remove CIs or relationships from the Sandbox that you do not want to promote by using Discard Sandbox Changes. 

See CI actions you can perform in the display pane .

You can edit the name and short description of a CI by using Quick Edit.

See Editing CIs and relationships in BMC Atrium Explorer .

To edit a CI, we recommend you to use Edit Instance in BMC CMDB Portal.

See Editing CIs and relationships in BMC CMDB Explorer.

You can edit query options that determine the default behavior of all queries. You can show deleted CIs in the query results or configure the maximum number of CIs that are returned in query results.

See Configuring query options in BMC Atrium Explorer .

You can view the CIs that are marked for deletion by creating a query that has the MarkedForDelete attribute set to Yes.

You can configure the maximum number of CIs that are returned in query results by using the pagination controls at the bottom of the search results.

Use the out-of-the-box Virtual machine queries to search for virtual machines.

We recommend that you build your own query by using the Graphical Query Builder.

See Creating a graph query to search for a CI

While creating a query with folding rules, you can select the attributes of CIs to be displayed in the query output table.

See Creating queries with folding rules in BMC Atrium Explorer .

You can create CMDBf classes and plug-ins by using Federation Manager to federate data from any CMDBf-compliant CMDB.

See Creating a CMDBf plugin .

You can update the properties of Service Context plug-ins by using Federation Manager.

See Overview of plugins and adapters for federated data .