Using
This section contains information about performing various tasks to maintain and manage your CMDB:
Area | Task | Reference |
|---|---|---|
Accessing | Accessing the new interface. | |
Search and view CIs | Search and view the CIs and their relationships. You may use this for troubleshooting, planning, analyzing dependencies, and so on. Save these search queries and reuse it later on or share the queries with others. | |
Using CMDB utilities | Access and use the different tools and utilities that are available in CMDB. | |
Create and edit CIs | Create CIs, add relationships between CIs, edit CI instances, edit CI relationships, compare CI values, and delete CIs in CMDB Explorer for an existing service model. Create CIs by using the CMDB Dashboard | |
Simulate impact | Simulating the impact of changes to a service when a CI is unavailable or impacted | |
Normalization | Manage software licensing using features such as Version Rollup, Suite Rollup, and Product Catalog. | |
Understand the Normalization Engine's process to handle impact relationship rules, and the usage of the Impact feature to manage service impact of CIs. | ||
Know the best-practice relationship rules for CIs, and the usage of the Relationship feature to manage CIs. | ||
Use the Normalization Engine to set row-level permissions for classes and instances, and normalization using the Row Level Security feature. | ||
Understand the scenarios where you may want to use customized normalization besides the out-of-the-box features, and the procedure for configuring the Custom feature. | ||
Configure the normalization parameters from a single, centralized console. | ||
Understand the normalization process and statuses that the Normalization Engines uses, the configuration process for normalizing data sets, and the procedure to create and monitor a normalization job. | ||
Reconciliation | Perform identification, merge, and purge activities in CMDB, create Reconciliation IDs, configure the Reconciliation Engine, and create and monitor reconciliation jobs. | |
Purge soft-deleted data to optimize CMDBperformance. | ||
Make settings to ignore multiple CIs from the BMC.ASSET data set which match a CI in the source data set. | ||
Atrium Integrator | Import data from external data stores to BMC Helix CMDB. | |
Use the Atrium Integrator Spoon to perform various complex jobs such as migrating data from one CMDB server to another, exporting data from AR System forms to external data stores, exporting web services data, and so on. | ||
BMC Configuration Drift Management | Track the changes made to CIs and their attributes by creating comparison jobs, change requests, and incidents in Drift Management. | |
Service impact | Manage impact relationships for your CIs and define your own impact rules specific to your enterprise to assess the effect of various CIs on your services. | |
Federated Classes | View federated classes and their details. | |
CMDB Web Services | Run saved queries |