Database blueprint

Default Blueprint for Database to Application

Use this default blueprint to create a business application or business service.

Before you begin

Discover CIs, CI Kinds, and their relationships through BMC Helix Discovery or any other supported data ingestion mechanism such as API calls.

Nodes, connections, and filters

The blueprint contains information about interconnected nodes, their relationships, and the default filter criteria.

• Start node: A single node with multiple CI Kinds
• Traversal path and connected nodes: Database, Software Cluster, Software Instances, Hosts, Virtual Machine, Load Balancer member nodes, and so on, as shown in the following image:
  
  
• Default filter rules:
  • The start node has a set filter criterion, as shown in the image. When creating the service model, the service designer must select the name of the Start CI name as input.
    
    
    
  • The default Filter by Kind link rule is enabled between all instances of Database and Software Instance node connections, as shown in the following images:
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  • The default Filter by Kind link rule is enabled between all instances of Virtual Machine and Host node connections, as shown in the following image:
    
    

Where to go from here

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