Promotion

You move changes that you make in a sandbox (on the overlay dataset) to the production dataset in a controlled process called promotion.

When a promotion is completed successfully, changes in the sandbox are merged with changes from other users and processes in the BMC Atrium CMDB. As soon as you successfully promote changes to a production dataset, the sandboxes of all other users are updated to reflect the new data.

Promotion and automated publishing process

Promoting and publishing are a sequence, in which you initiate a process to push objects (new or changed) to the production dataset BMC.ASSET of the BMC Atrium CMDB, followed by the automatic publication process, which sends that data to appropriate BMC ProactiveNet cell.

The promotion process is as follows:

• After making changes in the sandbox view, you start the promotion process from the BMC Impact Model Designer interface.
• BMC Impact Model Designer initiates a reconciliation job.
  After the actual promotion process begins, you cannot work in BMC Impact Model Designer until the process is completed.
• Promotion log objects are created in the BMC Atrium CMDB. The objects contain a list of objects selected for promotion.
• BMC Impact Model Designer regularly checks the progress of the reconciliation job. When the process is completed, BMC Impact Model Designer updates the objects and indicates that the promotion is complete.
• When the promotion has ended, if automated publishing is enabled, the publishing server initiates a publish from the production dataset to the BMC ProactiveNet cells in the environment. If other publish operations are under way at that time, the request is queued.