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    For customers who are upgrading to BMC TrueSight Presentation Server, this getting started topic describes how solution administration differs from BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management. Solution Administrators should read this topic to understand how they can perform tasks differently in the TrueSight console.

    Solution administration overview


    What is the Presentation Server?

    The TrueSight Presentation Server hosts the web-based TrueSight console functions and consumes data from various TrueSight products to provide a consolidated set of views for monitoring the infrastructure, real and synthetic applications, and capacity planning. In addition to data presentation, the Presentation Server performs functions such as role-based access control and data management functions such as storage and persistence.

    For information about the Presentation Server, see  BMC TrueSight Presentation Server overview .

    What is a data provider?

    Data providers collect and process the information that enables IT Operations to monitor IT infrastructure and applications. The Presentation Server connects to these data providers:

    • BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management and BMC PATROL - Events, devices, and performance data
    • BMC TrueSight App Visibility Manager - Active application transactions and performance data
    • BMC Synthetic Transaction Execution Adapter Agent - Generated synthetic application transactions and performance data

    Configuration of a data provider includes the following activities:

    • Connecting to the Presentation Server
    • Configuring the data provider's components, such as agents, collectors, and servers
    • Setting up data collection so you can feed that data to the Presentation Server

    Tell me more about BMC Atrium Single Sign-On

    BMC Atrium Single Sign-On is an authentication system that supports many authentication protocols and provides single sign-on and single sign-off for users of BMC products. BMC Atrium Single Sign-On allows users to present credentials only once for authentication and subsequently uses the same to automatically authenticated to every BMC product that is integrated into the system.

    Using these authentication methods requires that you have previously installed the BMC Atrium Single Sign-On server and configured it with an authentication server such as LDAP, RSA SecurID, or others. Not only does BMC Atrium Single Sign-On supports authentication with traditional systems such as LDAP or Active Directory, but it also supports integration with existing single sign-on systems. BMC Atrium Single Sign-On is the central integration point that performs integration with the local enterprise systems.

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    Administrative consoles before and after upgrade

    Before BMC TrueSight Presentation Server 10.0, administration of the monitoring systems was performed in the individual product consoles, as follows:

    • BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management - Administrators used the Central Monitoring Administration, hosted on an Infrastructure Management Server, to download BMC PATROL Agents and Knowledge Modules, download Integration Service hosts, create installation packages, and set up monitoring policies to collect events and performance data from monitored systems.
    • BMC Application Diagnostics - Administrators used the BMC Application Performance Management Console to configure the portal, collectors, and agents, and to set up data collection and SLA rules.
    • BMC Synthetic Monitoring - Administrators used the BMC Application Performance Management Console to configure the BMC Synthetic TEA Agent and set up execution plans and scripts to generate synthetic transactions.
    • Authentication and access control were handled through mechanisms specific to the monitoring systems' architecture and consoles.


    Note

    Starting from the TrueSight Presentation Server 10.5 release, the Central Monitoring Administration features and functionalities have been made available under the TrueSight console. However, to access those functionalities, the TrueSight Infrastructure Management must be added as a component and the repositories must be imported. For details, see Changes to infrastructure monitoring administration.


    After upgrading to BMC TrueSight Operations Management, Solution Administrators will use the TrueSight console for system configuration, data provider configuration, and role-based access control. Security administrators or Solution Administrators will use the BMC Atrium SSO Admin Console to define users and tenants.

    Administrative consoles after upgrade

    Note

    The Infrastructure Management administrator console is still required to configure events and adapters. For further information, see Infrastructure Management administrator console.

    Migration of system configuration to Presentation Server

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

    Migrating component and informationReference
    BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management repository

    Importing the Infrastructure Management repository

    BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management policies, user management data, and files. Migrating the Infrastructure Management policies and user data to the Presentation Server

     

    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 Infrastructure Management 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 the user account and tenant management capabilities to BMC TrueSight Presentation Server. 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 first to 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 Application models .
    • Groups - Groups help organize the information that you want to monitor. Groups created by using the TrueSight console are not specific to any Infrastructure Management server and are available only in the TrueSight console.

     

     

     

    Quick tour of Infrastructure Management configuration

    Solution Administrators and specialists use the TrueSight console 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 Getting started with infrastructure monitoring.

    Note

    The Infrastructure Management administrator console is still required to configure events and adapters. For further information, see  Infrastructure Management administrator console.

     

    Related topics

    Administering Infrastructure Management

     

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