Configuring after installation

Prepare your environment for configuration

Yes

Preparing-to-configure

• Planning-the-initial-ETL-run
• Setting-global_names-to-true-for-Oracle-databases

Configuration fails if your environment is not ready for configuration.

Configure the product

Yes

Configuring-the-product-by-using-the-console

The BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console helps you quickly configure databases, extract, transform, and load (ETL) repositories, and an email server.

Note: Context-sensitive help is available for the GUI elements on the Console. By default, offline (local) context-sensitive help is available. To see the latest documentation, access the online Help. For more information, see Configuring-the-online-Help.

Restart the RSCD agent

Yes

Restarting-the-RSCD-agent

Restart the RSCD agent for the agent and its children to inherit the system environment variables that are set during the 

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 installation.

Install Inventory templates and other scripts

Yes

Installing-Inventory-templates-and-other-scripts

• Inventory templates are required for Inventory report data collection.
• Scripts are required for agent log data collection and running the ETL and archival processes.

Enable Inventory assets

No

Enabling-Inventory-assets

By default, the data for certain assets is not loaded from the 

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 database to the reports data warehouse. To enable the data loading and migration of these assets, you must run scripts.

Enable data loading of the Property type properties

No

Enabling-data-loading-of-the-Property-class-type-property

By default, when you run ETL, data is loaded from the 

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 into the reports data warehouse for the Simple and Complex properties. To load data for the Property class type properties, you need to run the update command.

Run the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process

Yes

Performing-the-initial-ETL-run

Run ETL to transfer data from the 

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 database to the reports data warehouse.

Add sites

No

Adding-sites

To transfer data from more 

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 sites for reporting, add those sites.

Configure Inventory reporting

Yes

Configuring-Inventory-reporting

Deploy Inventory templates for enhanced Inventory reporting.

Implement multitenancy

No

Configuring-products-for-multitenancy

Generate tenant-specific reports through multitenancy.

Configure security

No

Administering-security

• Manage access and roles.
  
• Secure Remote Password (SRP) is the default approach of authentication for BMC Decision Support for Server Automation. To configure BMC Decision Support for Server Automation for a different authentication mechanism, see  Implementing-authentication.

Using

Documents the functionality of BMC Server Automation

Installing

• Explains how to install all the components of the BMC Server Automation system on all supported platforms
• Explains how to perform all the tasks necessary to make the components of a BMC Server Automation system function together smoothly

BMC BladeLogic Network Shell Command Reference

Provides a complete description of all Network Shell commands and utilities

BLCLI Help

Documents how to use the BMC Server Automation CLI (BLCLI), how to access the BLCLI using the Jython Line Interface, and describes the BLCLI commands