Integrating with BMC TrueSight Operations Management

You can integrate with BMC TrueSight Operations Management to collect and analyze event data and perform the following functions:

The high-level steps involved in the preceding functions are described in the following table:

Integrating with BMC TrueSight Operations Management

To integrate BMC TrueSight Operations Management with IT Data Analytics, you need to register details of the IT Data Analytics server on BMC TrueSight Operations Management. This configuration is required for performing the various functions available with this integration.

An integration with BMC TrueSight Operations Management actually involves an integration with BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management registered with BMC TrueSight Operations Management. When you integrate IT Data Analytics with BMC TrueSight Operations Management, BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management cells get listed on IT Data Analytics. You can see the cells listed by navigating to Administration > External Configurations, selecting the external configuration (which was automatically created after the integration), and clicking View External Configuration . You can use these cells to achieve the following goals:

• Get events from BMC TrueSight Operations Management.
• Send events to BMC TrueSight Operations Management.

Before you begin

Ensure that BMC TrueSight Operations Management is up and running in your environment. For more information, see Installing BMC TrueSight Operations Management

Ensure that you have already configured BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management (earlier known as BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management) on BMC TrueSight Operations Management. For more information, see Registering the data providers with the Presentation Server

To integrate with BMC TrueSight Operations Management

1. Access the TrueSight console.
2. From the navigation menu , go to Administration > Components.

3. On the Components page, click the action menu and select Add Component.
   
   Select IT Data Analytics Server and enter the following details:
4. Verify if the integration completed successfully.
   To do this, log on to IT Data Analytics, navigate to Administration > External Configurations, and verify if there is an entry with the external configuration, "True Sight Presentation Server". Note that the Presentation Server hosts the web-based console functions of BMC TrueSight Operations Management.
   Also, after you integrate, BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management cells get automatically listed in the external configuration, which is created on IT Data Analytics. You can see the cells listed on IT Data Analytics by navigating to Administration > External Configurations, selecting the external configuration (which was automatically created after the integration), and then clicking View External Configuration .

You might want to see some troubleshooting scenarios regarding the integration. For more information, see Common-troubleshooting-issues.

Cross-launching from BMC TrueSight Operations Management

To enable cross-launch from BMC TrueSight Operations Management into IT Data Analytics, you must first register details of the IT Data Analytics Server with BMC TrueSight Operations Management. For more information, see Integrating with BMC TrueSight Operations Management.

You can cross-launch into IT Data Analytics from applications and events available on BMC TrueSight Operations Management. Before you cross-launch into IT Data Analytics, it is important that you create a data collector for the following items:

• Each device (host) included in the application from which you want to cross-launch.
• Each host associated with the event from which you want to cross-launch.

Data collectors are objects that help you collect data records (or events) from the target hosts and make it available for search and analysis. For more information, see Creating-data-collectors. Creating data collectors beforehand ensures that you can search events after you cross-launch from BMC TrueSight Operations Management into IT Data Analytics.

Where to go from here

Create data collectors to start collection of event data from BMC TrueSight Operations Management. For more information, see Monitor using external configuration data collector.

Add notifications on the event data collected and subsequently log events in BMC TrueSight Operations Management. For more information, see Managing-notifications.