To help you manage and maintain the BMC TrueSight IT Data Analytics product, this topic provides information about the following administration tasks:
Task | Description |
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Managing components | After installing the product, ensure that all product components are up and running. |
Managing data collectors | Understand various aspects about data collection and learn how to create new data collectors depending on the type of data you want to collect and index. |
Managing data patterns | Understand various aspects about data patterns and learn how to create new patterns for indexing data. |
Managing users and access control | Manage user authorization into the product based on roles and user authentication options. |
Managing notifications | Create notifications to alert problems or abnormalities in the following ways:
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Managing collection profiles | Create a collection profile and specify data collector templates that can in turn be used to automate the data collection process. |
Managing hosts | Create host profiles for capturing host credentials for subsequent use at the time of data collection. Specify information about host level tags to be inherited from integrated external systems. |
Managing credentials | Create credential profiles to capture system credentials for subsequent use at the time of data collection to avoid manual work. |
Managing content packs |
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Modifying the configuration files | Learn how to customize default settings and property definitions by modifying the configuration files |
Managing system settings | Manage various system level settings such as enabling data access control, maximum data retention period, and creation of tags. |
Starting or stopping product services | Learn how to start and stop services for Windows and Linux operating systems. |
Using the command line interface | Use CLI commands to perform various actions, such as:
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Setting up Collection Agents | Configure Collection Agents to collect data by using
BMC PATROL for IT Data Analytics
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Replacing the primary node | Replace the primary node (master Indexer) in an environment where multiple Indexers are deployed. |
Backing up and restoring data | Backup and restore data that was indexed, data stored in the Configuration Database, and data stored in the configuration files. |
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