Adapters

Adapters enable BMC Atrium Orchestrator workflows to perform specialized functions within external applications. Adapters are located on peers and are configured to establish connections and facilitate communications between the BMC Atrium Orchestrator workflow and the external applications and support systems.

Adapters are used by workflows to build the processes that compose a solution. Workflows built to solve a specific problem can be grouped into modules.

Note

The BMC Atrium Orchestrator product provides a set of general, reusable modules to solve some common IT problems. For more information about these modules, see Operations-Actions-Management-modules.

Integration using adapters

Adapters are the integration mechanisms most widely used in BMC Atrium Orchestrator integrations. The BMC Atrium Orchestrator platform supports more than 19 base adapters and 30 application adapters.

When deciding whether to use an adapter, ensure that you evaluate the adapter's requirements.

Adapter requirements

When using BMC Atrium Orchestrator adapters to perform integrations, the configuration and tuning of an adapter is important. In data-oriented integrations, for example, you must be able to process a high volume of data in an ordered and predictable manner, which means that the adapter must be configured for high data throughput. BMC Atrium Orchestrator adapters achieve these requirements when you configure multiple threads of execution, concurrent connections to the external system, and simultaneous command execution. In this example, you would also need to tune the adapter so that it allows connection pooling and resource sharing to limit the resource requirements if you have high transaction volume.

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