Getting started with solution administration in the TrueSight console

For customers who are upgrading to BMC TrueSight Operations Management, this getting started topic describes how solution administration differs from BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management and BMC TrueSight App Visibility Manager. Solution Administrators should read this topic to understand how they will perform tasks differently in the TrueSight console.

Administrative consoles before and after upgrade

Migration of system configuration to Operations Management

System configuration will be migrated to the TrueSight console as indicated in the following topics:

Migrating component and information	Reference
BMC App Visibility Manager (formerly BMC Application Diagnostics) policy and configuration files	Preparing for an App Visibility upgrade and checking compatibility
BMC Transaction Management Application Response Time scripts and configurations Note: Migration from BMC Synthetic Transaction Monitoring 2.6.00 (Borland Silk Performer Synthetic Transaction Monitoring for BMC Software ) is not currently supported.	Migrating synthetic configurations
BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Central Monitoring Administration repository	Migrating the Central Monitoring Administration repository
BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management policies, user management data, and files.	Migrating the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management data to BMC TrueSight Operations Management

Solution administration functions

The following figure illustrates the major functions of solution administration in the TrueSight console. For information about all configuration tasks, including those not performed in the console, see Administering and  Configuring after installation.

Quick tours

Each quick tour provide a visual overview of these functions and links to how-to information.

Quick tour of security administration functions

BMC Atrium Single Sign-On provides user account and tenant management to BMC TrueSight Operations Management. Solution Administrators create users, user groups and tenants as realms in the BMC Atrium SSO Admin Console. User Groups are then assigned to Authorization Profiles in the TrueSight console. For more information, see Managing users in the BMC Atrium Single Sign-On documentation.

The TrueSight console provides role-based access control to data, system features, and features enabled by the data providers. Solution Administrators define roles and authorization profiles that control data access and the users' ability to perform functions. For more information, see Managing users and access control.

Quick tour of  system configuration and integration configuration

The initial configuration of the Presentation Server occurs during installation. After installation, the Solution Administrator connects the data providers to the Presentation Server and integrates other components that extend the functionality of the system. For more information, see Configuring after installation and Integrating.

Quick tour of administration for common monitoring functions

The TrueSight console provides the following common features for enabling IT Operations to monitor your IT infrastructure and critical applications:

• Dashboards - All users can configure dashboards; however, Solution Administrators or specialists need to first configure the data providers and set up data collection.
• Application models - All data providers can leverage applications models to enable monitoring in an application context. For more detailed information, see Use case: Monitoring the infrastructure in the context of an application.
• Groups - Groups help organize the information that you want to monitor. Groups created by using the Infrastructure Management Administrator Console are synchronized to the TrueSight console.

Quick tour of Infrastructure Management configuration

Solution Administrators and specialists use Central Monitoring Administration to download BMC PATROL Agents and Knowledge Modules, download Integration Service hosts, manage the monitoring infrastructure, and set up monitoring policies to collect events and performance data from monitored systems. For more information, see Central Monitoring Administration for Infrastructure Management. (Note: The Infrastructure Management administrator console is still required to configure events and adapters. For further information, see Infrastructure Management administrator console .)

Quick tour of  App Visibility configuration

To enable application monitoring, you configure the BMC TrueSight App Visibility components, set up application discovery, and set SLAs (thresholds to generate events).

Quick tour of Synthetic transaction monitoring configuration

Solution Administrators or specialists configure how to generate the synthetic transactions to synthetically monitor application health, which is monitored from Application monitoring. For complete information about this process, see Setting up and managing synthetic transaction monitoring.

Related topics

Planning

Administering