Infrastructure Management administrator console

The Infrastructure Management administrator console allows you to modify the Infrastructure Management Server and the Integration Service network management areas by adding or deleting device groups, monitored devices, data collection adapters, or changing event management configuration. You can also manage supported infrastructure components and service models from this administrator console. This console also provides access to event management policies, the dynamic data editor, and the services editor.

User interface

The administrator console has two main tabs:

• Administration – Use this tab for general administration of Infrastructure Management administration tasks, working with event management policies, working with dynamic data using the Dynamic Data Editor, and administering the Infrastructure Management infrastructure, such as the event management cells.
• Services Editor – Use this tab to manually edit services if the Infrastructure Management server is not integrated to the CMDB. This tab provides service editing functionality only; it does not display service impact or CI status.

Administration tab

The Administration tab includes the following subtabs, identified by these icons:
 — General Administration
 — Event Management Policies
 — Dynamic Data Editor

Menu options change depending upon the subtab you have selected.

Services Editor tab

The Services Editor tab of the administrator console is used by administrators who manually build service models in environments where the Infrastructure Management server is not integrated with the CMDB. Service models are created by organizing service model components into hierarchical relationships.

The IT operations staff can view and manage the underlying events in the TrueSight console.

For more information about using the administrator console to view services models, see Using-the-administrator-console-to-administer-the-Infrastructure-Management-environment.

Tasks performed in the administrator console versus the TrueSight console

The TrueSight console is installed with the TrueSight Presentation Server and is the preferred console for Managing-Infrastructure-Management-devices-from-the-TrueSight-console. The following table list the tasks you can perform through the administrator console and through the TrueSight console.

Related topics

Downloading and installing the administrator console on remote computers

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