Overview of the Rules Management application
The Rules Management application is a windows-mode editor that allows you to create and manage Rules that are stored in a registry.
You can access the Rules Management editor from the MainView Explorer interface from a web browser or from the Automation Menu. The Rules Management application allows you to create Rules that you can also easily control throughout your system. The following sections define terms and concepts that you should understand before implementing Rules via the Rules Management application.
Rules Management registry
The Rules registry is a Runtime Component System (RTCS) registry that is used as a repository for Rules-specific information.
For more information about RTCS, see Administering Runtime Component System (RTCS) and Customizing after installation (Common mainframe infrastructure). A single registry can be used by a single BMC AMI Ops Automation PAS or, it can be shared by multiple BMC AMI Ops Automation PASes, which is also called an AOPLex.
AOPlex
An AOPLex is a collection of all of the BMC AMI OpsA PASes that share a single Rules registry.
You can have a single BMC AMI OpsA PAS or hundreds of PASes sharing a registry. Therefore, if you have Rules automation where multiple PASes would use the same Rules and Rule Sets, you should consider creating (or converting) and managing your Rules with the Rules Management application.
Deploying Rules and Rule Sets
You can deploy (or send) Rules and Rule Sets to the BMC AMI OpsA PASes that need access to them from a single registry.
This means that you can deploy Rules and Rule Sets from a single registry to one or many PASes within an AOPLex as well as deploy Rules and Rule Sets from one AOPLex to another AOPLex that is connected to the same CASPLex. You can control and manage the level of registry sharing within and between AOPLexes in as centralized or de-centralized way as your system requires.
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