Integrating with ProactiveNet and Infrastructure Management cells


You can integrate with BMC ProactiveNet remote cells and BMC Infrastructure Management remote cells to collect event data into BMC TrueSight IT Data Analytics and analyze it.

The steps required for integrating with Infrastructure Management cells are the same as those required for integrating with the ProactiveNet cells.

To see the features (or capabilities) supported with this integration, see the compatibility matrix at Integrating.

This topic contains the following information:

Key steps to an effective integration

The high-level steps involved in performing this integration and enabling the functions available with the integration are described in the following table:

Before you begin

If you want to integrate with the Infrastructure Management cells, you need to ensure that Infrastructure Management is already registered with BMC TrueSight Presentation Server.

To configure a ProactiveNet (or Infrastructure Management) cell

  1. Navigate to Administration > External Configurations.
  2. From the list at the top-left of your screen, select BPPM Cell Configuration.
  3. Provide the following details:

  4. Click Save.

Where to go from here

Create data collectors to start collection of event data from the BMC ProactiveNet (or Infrastructure Management) cell that you configured. For instructions on creating a data collector, see Monitor using external configuration data collector.

Add notifications on the event data collected and subsequently log events into BMC ProactiveNet (or Infrastructure Management). For more information, see Creating-notifications.

 

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