Viewing and running hierarchy rules

A hierarchy rule is a condition that selects the set of entities to which a hierarchy template should be applied.

Hierarchy rules and hierarchy templates are used by BMC Helix Continuous Optimization to manage hierarchies. BMC Helix Continuous Optimization automatically updates hierarchies when new entities and data series are loaded.

For example, a hierarchy rule can dictate that the Virtual Machine template should be applied to all entities of type Virtual Host within the Virtualized Systems domain.

Related topics

Hierarchies

Managing-the-Data-Warehouse

To view hierarchy rules

  1. Open BMC Helix Continuous Optimization from the BMC Helix Portal.
  2. Select Administration > Data Warehouse > Hierarchy rules.
    The Hierarchy rules page lists all the currently configured rules (excluding derived and aggregate rules) and their status.

To run a hierarchy rule

You can manually run a hierarchy rule. The rule runs on the entities collected during the specified period.

Perform these steps:

  1. On the Hierarchy rules page, click the hierarchy rule that you want to run.
  2. Click Run.
  3. Select the default period or define a custom period for which you want to run the rule.
  4. Click OK.
    A confirmation message about the run operation is displayed at the top of the table.

 

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