Configuring the HP Service Manager monitor adapter

You configure an adapter in BMC Atrium Orchestrator Grid Manager. The configuration provides information about how the adapter interacts with the HP Service Manager application. Though each adapter must have a unique name, you can create multiple adapters with the same adapter type to allow for different configuration properties.

The form view provides an easy-to-use interface for configuring adapters. The form view prevents errors that might occur when you copy the configuration XML from the adapter documentation into the UI during configuration. You can switch to the XML view to configure those elements and attributes that are not available as fields or to configure all the elements and attributes by using XML only. However, after you switch to the XML view and save the configuration in the XML form, you cannot thereafter use the form view for modifying the configuration. For details about the procedure to configure a monitor adapter, see the procedure in Configuring-the-HP-Service-Manager-actor-adapter.

The following table describes the configuration elements for the monitor adapter. You cannot use the form view to configure elements and attributes that do not have an entry in the UI label column.

The following figures show XML templates for the monitor adapter configuration with a plain and an encrypted password.

XML template for configuring the monitor adapter with a plain password

XML template for configuring the monitor adapter with an encrypted base64 password