Administering

As an administrator, you might have to perform the following tasks related to BMC Helix CMDB:

Installing BMC Helix CMDB components
Allocating server and database resources
Managing access control by assigning permissions for applications and their components
Adding and deleting users, groups, and roles
Backing up data and importing it from other systems

This section contains information about administering the following BMC Helix CMDB components:

Task or concept	Reference
Create and manage datasets and also set permissions to the datasets.	Managing-data-sources-and-datasets-in-BMC-Helix-CMDB
Configure the core CMDB components	Configuring-core-CMDB-components-and-plug-ins
AR System plug-ins related to CMDB such as Atrium Integrator Pentaho, Dynamic Service Modeling, Federated data, CMDB Impact Simulator, and so on.	AR-System-plug-ins-related-to-CMDB
Setting ports that communicate with various components	Best-practices-for-setting-ports-with-RPC-program-numbers-or-queues-and-threads
Share business service CI information with other applications	Setting-up-service-context-to-share-business-service-CI-information-with-other-applications
Provide access to the CMDB Portal for a better user experience.	Configuring-the-URL-to-access-CMDB-Portal-through-Mid-Tier
Understand the relationships between users, groups, and roles.	Roles-and-permissions
Setting up normalization engine permissions for multi-tenancy and normalization rules to set row-level permissions.	Setting-the-Normalization-Engine-permissions-for-multi-tenancy
Control users' access to specific features of the CMDB Portal.	Providing-users-with-permissions-to-access-the-CMDB-Portal-by-using-groups-and-roles
Configure the AR System server to allow your users to open a CI in the old flex UI in sandbox mode.	Configuring-the-default-web-path-of-the-Mid-Tier-server-in-AR-System-Administration-Console
Customize how CMDB calculates health and completeness metrics on the dashboard.	Configuring-Key-Performance-Indicators-for-CMDB
Exclude classes and and datasets used to calculate the dashboard metrics.	Excluding-classes-and-datasets-for-processing-Dashboard-parameters
Promote CDM definitions across environments using Deployment Application.	Promoting-CMDB-CDM-Definitions-across-environments
Prepare your data for normalization.	Preparing-for-normalization
Manage the approval status, categorization, development status, and other attributes of products.	Managing-the-Product-Catalog
Define archiving criteria for configuration items (CIs) in the CMDB.	Archiving-CMDB-data
Configure CMDB Web Services.	Configuring-BMC-Helix-CMDB-web-services
Managing web services security policies.	Access-and-authentication-for-web-services
Modify the data model.	Modifying-the-data-model-by-using-Class-Manager
Access external data through the CMDB.	Accessing-external-data-through-CMDB-by-using-Federation
Create a service catalog to define the resources that deliver business services, models their behaviors and functional relationships, and manages the delivery of the resulting services.	Managing-a-service-catalog-by-using-CMDB-Explorer
Build a service model to be able to see how CI failures propagate and impact the upstream services.	Creating-service-models-by-using-Dynamic-Service-Modeling
Monitor the impact of various events on a business service.	Monitoring-the-impact-of-events-on-a-business-service
Enable audit for classes and attributes	Auditing-changes-to-CIs

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