Adding a component in TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform
As a component administrator, you can add a component in TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform.
After you add a component in TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform:
- The component views and reports are automatically imported in TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform.
- You can open TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform from the component user interface
- You can create custom reports by using the component views.
You can add multiple components in TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform. However, you can add only a single instance of a component type. For example, you can add both TrueSight Server Automation and TrueSight Network Automation as components. However, you can add only a single instance of TrueSight Server Automation and a single instance of TrueSight Network Automation at a time.
If you try to add an additional instance of the component, the following message is displayed:
Before you begin
- Ensure that you are a component administrator.
- If you have installed TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform on Windows and if you are planning to use the Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser to access TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform, you must import CA-signed certificates for TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform. Ensure that the connection to TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform is in the secure mode for all clients.
If you cannot import a CA-signed certificate and want to use a self-signed certificate, access TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform on any browser other than Chrome or Microsoft Edge, for example, Mozilla Firefox. - If you are adding any of the following components, ensure that ETL has run successfully at least once for each component:
- TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse
- TrueSight Network Automation - Data Warehouse
To add a component
Do the following:
- If you are adding TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse version 8.9.04 Patch 3 as a component, do the following:
From this page, download the JobActivity.yfx file:
https://communities.bmc.com/docs/DOC-125596Save the JobActivity.yfx file in the $BDS_HOME/bsa/bi/model/19201/ directory.
- Use the following URL to open the Login page:
https://<TrueSight Smart Reporting hostname>:<port>/tsr In Click here to add a component, click here. You can see the Add Components page.
Select the options as described in the following table:
Click Save. You can see the component that you added on the Components page. Before the component is connected, its status is Initializing.
After the component is connected and all the component views and reports are added, the status changes to Connected.The Status column displays values according to the registration status of your component. The following statuses are available:
- Initializing
You can view the files that are being imported while the component is initializing. Connected
- Registration Error
- Disconnected
- Deleting
- Delete Error
- Updating
- Update Error
- Initializing
Where to go from here
Now that you have added a component in TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform, you can do one of the following:
- Configure TrueSight Smart Reporting settings.
- Configure TrueSight Smart Reporting repository database with TLS-enabled Oracle database.
- If you want to use a self-signed certificate for TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform, see Importing-component-custom-certificates-in-TrueSight-Smart-Reporting-Platform.