Importing data

Once you have set up your containers, items, and relationships, you are ready to import data to populate the fields. You can schedule import tasks to occur at specific times, or run an import task just one time. Before trying to import data from BMC Client Management (BCM), review the related information in Integrating.

You can import the following types of data:

• Configuration items (CIs)
  • From BCM
  • From CSV files
  • From SQL databases
• CI relationships
  • From BCM
  • From CSV files
  • From SQL databases
• Contacts
  
  • Populating-address-books
  • Creating-address-book-data-files
• Solutions
• Ticket data
• Users with specific workspaces and user roles identified

Next step

Setting-up-user-groups-and-configuring-user-access

Related topics

Getting-started-quickly-for-administrators

Creating-containers-for-your-data

Configuring-record-definitions

Linking-to-records-and-data

Setting-up-synchronization

Automating-notifications-and-other-actions

Setting-up-search-queries-and-report-definitions

Changing the look and feel of FootPrints

Testing-your-configuration-settings

Managing-configuration-settings