Importing out-of-the-box content


The content import process imports out-of-the-box reporting content from the Remedy Action Request System server (AR System server) to Remedy Smart Reporting. This process imports fresh and upgraded content for all the installed Remedy applications in the following deployment scenarios:

  • A single company in a Remedy IT Service Management (Remedy ITSM) environment
  • Multiple companies in a multicompany Remedy ITSM environment

After onboarding all users in Remedy Smart Reporting, a Remedy Smart Reporting administrator must manually run the content import process. For multicompany onboarding, the administrator can import the out-of-the-box content at scheduled intervals for all the tenants at same time. For more information, see Synchronizing-common-content-across-multiple-tenants.

Related topics

Onboarding

Troubleshooting-user-onboarding-and-content-import

Import process overview

Content is the core of Remedy Smart Reporting, which provides various reporting options for data from the Remedy applications. During the installation of individual applications such as Atrium CMDB or HR Case Management, fresh and upgrade content is pushed to a Remedy AR System form. The content import process imports the content for each application from the form to Remedy Smart Reporting.

If you install or upgrade an application after importing the content for the first time, you can manually trigger the content import process again. The process imports content only for newly installed or upgraded applications, not for applications for which you imported content earlier. For example, suppose you are upgrading Remedy applications from version 19.02.00 to version 19.11.00. In version 19.02.00, you had Atrium CMDB and Remedy ITSM. While upgrading to version 19.11.00, you also installed a new application, HR Case Management. When you run the content import process, it imports fresh content for the HR Case Management application and upgrades the content for Atrium CMDB and Remedy ITSM.

If you upgrade an application and run the content import process, the process overwrites the existing content that was imported during the previous installation. Similarly, if you directly customize out-of-the-box content and run the import process, the process overwrites customized content.

Best practices
BMC recommends that you do not customize out-of-the-box-content. Instead, create a copy and customize it. If you directly customize out-of-the-box content, and you run the content import process, the process overwrites the customized content. The content import process does not overwrite the customized copy, and you must manually reconcile changes to it.

Consider the following examples: 

Example for upgraded content

Report_A was imported earlier as fresh content for Remedy ITSM 19.02.00. Now, you have upgraded Remedy ITSM to version 19.11.00. With the upgrade, Report_A was updated as Report_A_1902. When you run the content import process after the upgrade, the process overwrites Report_A with the new Report_A_1911.

Example for customized content

In Remedy Smart Reporting 19.02.00, you customized an out-of-the-box report, Report_B, and saved a copy as Report_B_Custom. You upgraded Remedy applications to version 19.11.00 and ran the content import process after the upgrade was complete. In version 19.02.00, out-of-the-box Report_B was updated. After you run the content import process for upgraded content, the process overwrites Report_B from version 19.02.00 with Report_B from version 19.11.00. The process does not update Report_B_Custom. You must manually reconcile any changes to Report_B_Custom after upgrading.

Before you begin

To import out-of-the-box reporting content

  1. Log in to the Remedy Smart Reporting Administration Console as a Smart Reporting super administrator (siadmin).
    The path to the console is http://RemedySmartReportingServerHostName:port/AdminConsole/#.
  2. Select Services > Import Content.
  3. Select the customer for whom you want to import the reporting content, and click Next.
  4. Follow the import content wizard to complete the content import.

  5. Select the product name and version (current and later versions only) for which you want to import content, and click Add. The following products are available:

    • BMC CMDB
    • Remedy ITSM
    • BMC Service Request Management
    • BMC Service Level Management
    • Smart IT

    Repeat this step for each product and version you want to import content for.

  6. Validate your selection, and click Start Import.

Notes

  • Re-importing data for a version overwrites the out-of-the-box content. Any data that was modified is lost.
  • If you select Select All from the product list, content of the latest version of all listed products is imported.
  • The time taken for import depends on how many products you import data for.

After completion, the process displays the content import result. The import content wizard displays the product names for which the import process has passed or failed. For additional information about any failures, refer to the sr.timeStamp.log file. You can fix the issues and re-import the content for the applications for which the import process has failed.

 

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