BMC ProactiveNet monitors multiple components (configuration items) that comprise parts of a service model. BMC ProactiveNet also displays the status of the configuration items (CIs) and identifies the root cause of the service being impacted. In environments that use large service models, the need arises to distribute different components of the model across various BMC ProactiveNet Servers but at the same time also allow operators to view the complete model and its status from a single user interface (Central Console).
Service models that enable users to have, from the Central Server Console, a centralized view of the models present on different child servers are called centralized service models. The aggregated view presented by centralized service models is as follows:
Note
Service models published to remote cells can not be viewed either from the Operations Console or from the Administration Console.
Centralized service models can be of two types: discrete and distributed.