Concepts

A concept is a special type of context item that enables you to store multiple values in a single context item. When you are creating a process with the BMC Atrium Orchestrator Development Studio application that uses one of the Operations Actions utilities modules, you must use a concept to provide the input information required for the Operations Actions utility.

The Operations Actions in the utilities modules (Application, Common, Directory Services, File, Network, Operating System and Physical Device) use either a command line, SSH, Telnet, or Windows command adapter to execute the central command for the process. For each of these processes, you must use a concept to provide the information required to create the adapter request that executes the central command.

A concept is an XML document containing specific elements used to assign multiple values to a single context item. Each value is associated with an element of the concept. The connection details input required by each of the Operations Actions uses the ConnectionDetails concept (AutoPilot-OA-Common_Utilities: ConnectionDetails). The different adapters require different sets of elements in the concept.

Use an Assign activity to create the concept. Create a separate assign statement for each element of the ConnectionDetails concept. Each assign statement is mapped to the same context item, and BMC Atrium Orchestrator Development Studio creates the concept XML document. An example of creating a concept is included in Creating-the-connection-details-concept.