Service modeling with blueprints

Defining a service enables you to efficiently manage the underlying applications and infrastructure that is relevant to your business needs. Blueprints are templates that give you complete control of the service that you are modeling. You can use both static and dynamic content to control the model composition. 

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Blueprints

Blueprints are predefined service templates or building blocks to be used by organizations for defining services when creating service models. Blueprints visually map out the steps that make up a service process, and make it simpler to design a new service, or improve an existing service. Blueprints play a significant role in managing service operations, service design, and service positioning.

Blueprints in BMC Discovery include nodes that can be defined to have static or dynamic rules. Each blueprint contains one or more nodes of the same kind, interconnected to define a relationship.

Blueprints in BMC Discovery

Global flags in Python are meant to be placed at the start of regular expressions. Earlier versions of Python issued warnings for misplaced flags. BMC Discovery now uses Python 3.11, in which misplaced flags are an error. TKU patterns have been updated for this change, and the TPL compiler now warns if flags are misplaced in your custom patterns. However, regex searches with misplaced flags fail silently. In Blueprints, the searches fail to match and, without notification, your Blueprints will be empty, or will not contain what you expect.

A simple example of a misplaced flag is: '^(?i)Linux' which can be corrected to '(?i)^Linux'

Similarly: '/Common/(?i)((FV|dl)515sy):2121' can be corrected to '(?i)/Common/((FV|dl)515sy):2121'

An example from the EMC ControlCenter StorageScope pattern is: '^(?i)EMC ControlCenter \d(?:\.\d)*' which has been corrected in the TKU to '(?i)^EMC ControlCenter \d(?:\.\d)*'

Nodes and node kinds 

  • A node is an object that represents an entity in the environment discovered by BMC Discovery and stored in the datastore. Nodes can be connected to other nodes by using relationships.
  • A node kind is the type of a node, such as a Host or Software Instance. The default set of nodes and their named attributes and relationships are defined in the BMC Discovery taxonomy. 

 

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