Adding components to the Console

To access captured and analyzed data on the

, you must add at least one  instance to the Console instance. To use  functionality, you must add at least one instance of this component, too. And, to make drill-downs to a  instance possible, you must add it to the Console.

Alternatively, instead of connecting Analyzer and Collector components, you can add BMC TrueSight End User Monitor 4200 Series component. This allows to minimize the hardware costs and optimize the deployment and configuration efforts.

Before you begin

If you want to use the DNS hostname of your component instances (rather than the IP address), you must set DNS parameters on the Console before adding components to it.

To add a component instance to the Console

1. On the menu of the System Deployment > Components page of the Console, click Configuration.
2. On the Action menu, click Add Component.
3. Type IP address of the component or the DNS name, for example 10.160.1.63.
4. Accept the default value of 443 in Port.
5. In the Component Group box, enter the name of the sub-group, to which you want to include the component.
   When you select this group for upgrade, the system upgrades all components that it contains. For more information, read Installing-the-updates.
6. Type the user name and password for the Security account. The system uses this account for API calls between the Console and the Analyzer.
7. Click Save.

Result

The instance is now added to the Configuration page of the Console. While the Console is trying to establish a connection to the component, the Status displays UNKNOWN. After a connection is established, the Status changes to OK. If the Status displays ERROR, the component was not added correctly.

After connecting the components to each other and adding them to the Console, the system can start pulling traffic data into the configured Watchpoints.

components appear on the Home page of the Console so that you can quickly drill down into any of them.

Where to go from here

Next, BMC recommends that you verify this configuration.