Initializing a cell

Initialization deletes all existing BMC ProactiveNet data (service model data and service management data) of the publishing environment from the cell. For an Atrium CMDB Publish environment, it sends the contents of the BMC Atrium CMDB PN:PublishedData form to the cells.

When a cell is initialized, existing events are associated with new copies of components, so status information of CIs is not lost.

You reinitialize a cell by using the pinit CLI command. Typically, you can reinitialize only when the following conditions exist:

• A cell is reinstalled (restart the cell with the -i option).
• A cell must be restarted for recovery purposes.
• Product Short data in the cell is no longer in sync with the data in the BMC Atrium CMDB impact dataset or with the data in the Direct Publish source.

When you add a new cell alias to an Atrium CMDB Publish environment, the BMC ProactiveNet Publishing Server automatically initializes it with the service model management data on first publication to it. When you initialize cells of an Atrium CMDB Publish environment, the BMC ProactiveNet Publishing Server sends the data in the PN:PublishedData form to the cells.

When only DirectPublish publishing is enabled, then you have to initialize the new cell with management data manually.

To initialize a cell from the BMC Atrium CMDB production environment, run the following CLI command:

pinit -n cellName 

For more information about reinitializing a cell, see pinit.