Integrating with TrueSight Presentation Server

This topic provides information about integrating with TrueSight Presentation Server to collect and analyze event data.

Notes

An integration with TrueSight Presentation Server is an integration with the TrueSight Infrastructure Management component that is registered with TrueSight Presentation Server.
Unlike other integrations, this integration requires you to register details of the TrueSight IT Data Analytics server on TrueSight Presentation Server (or TrueSight console).

At a high level, this integration helps you perform the following functions:

Get events from TrueSight Presentation Server.
Send events to TrueSight Presentation Server while creating notifications.
Cross-launch from TrueSight Presentation Server into TrueSight IT Data Analytics.

To see all the features (or capabilities) supported with this integration, see the compatibility matrix at Integrating.

Note

The metrics chart is not displayed for events that are generated from the integrated TrueSight Presentation Server.

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Key steps to an effective integration

The high-level steps involved in performing this integration and enabling the functions available with the integration are described in the following table:

Goal	High-level steps		Additional information
Get events	1	Integrate with TrueSight Presentation Server.	Integration process
	2	Create a data collector.	Collecting data from external systems
	3	Perform a search to analyze the events retrieved.	Getting started with search
Send events and fetch applications	1	Integrate with TrueSight Presentation Server.	Integration process
	2	Create a saved search.	Saving and sharing searches for analytics and monitoring
	3	Create a notification to log an event in TrueSight Presentation Server. While creating the notification, you can also search for application names available on TrueSight Presentation Server. With this the logged event is associated with the application name that you searched while creating the notification.	Setting up notifications to create alerts or reports

You can also perform the following additional functions:

Cross-launch into TrueSight IT Data Analytics from TrueSight Operations Management. For more information, see Cross-launching from the TrueSight console.
Create IT Data Analytics dashlets in the TrueSight console. For more information, see Creating dashlets on TrueSight Presentation Server.

Both the preceding functions require you to register details of the IT Data Analytics server with TrueSight Presentation Server. For more information, see the integration process.

Integration process

To integrate TrueSight Presentation Server with IT Data Analytics, you need to perform the following functions:

Register details of the IT Data Analytics server on the TrueSight console.
This configuration is required for performing the various functions available with this integration.
Enable Atrium Single Sign-On 9.0 to communicate with IT Data Analytics.
Notes
- Unless you use Atrium Single Sign-On for user authentication, you cannot use IT Data Analytics in conjunction with TrueSight Presentation Server.
- It is important that you configure the same Atrium Single Sign-On server that you are using with TrueSight Presentation Server.

An integration with TrueSight Presentation Server actually involves an integration with TrueSight Infrastructure Management registered with TrueSight Presentation Server. When you integrate IT Data Analytics with TrueSight Presentation Server, TrueSight Infrastructure Management cells get listed on IT Data Analytics. You can see the cells listed by navigating to Administration > External Configurations, selecting the external configuration (which was automatically created after the integration), and clicking View External Configuration . You can use these cells to achieve the following goals:

Get events from TrueSight Operations Management.
Send events to TrueSight Operations Management.

The following information provides details about registering details of the IT Data Analytics server on the TrueSight console.

Before you begin
To integrate with TrueSight Presentation Server

Before you begin

Ensure that TrueSight Presentation Server is up and running in your environment. For more information, see Installing BMC TrueSight Operations Management Open link

Ensure that you have already configured TrueSight Infrastructure Management on TrueSight Presentation Server. For more information, see

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If you have not already enabled Atrium Single Sign-On 9.0 to communicate with IT Data Analytics, run the enablesso CLI command CLI command.

To integrate with TrueSight Presentation Server

You might want to see some troubleshooting scenarios regarding the integration. For more information, see Troubleshooting common issues.

Cross-launching from the TrueSight console

To enable cross-launch from the TrueSight console into IT Data Analytics, you must first register details of the IT Data Analytics Server with TrueSight Presentation Server (on the TrueSight console). For more information, see the integration process.

You can cross-launch into IT Data Analytics from applications and events available on the TrueSight Console. Before you cross-launch into IT Data Analytics, it is important that you create a data collector for the following items:

Each device (host) included in the application from which you want to cross-launch.
Each host associated with the event from which you want to cross-launch.

Data collectors are objects that help you collect data records (or events) from the target hosts and make it available for search and analysis. For more information, see Collecting data into the system. Creating data collectors beforehand ensures that you can search events after you cross-launch from the TrueSight console into IT Data Analytics.

To cross-launch from the TrueSight console into IT Data Analytics

Where to go from here

Create data collectors to start collection of event data from TrueSight Presentation Server. For more information, see Monitor using external configuration data collector.

Create notifications on the event data collected and subsequently log events on TrueSight Presentation Server. For more information, see Setting up notifications to create alerts or reports.

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