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Reconciliation jobs

Discovered data is imported to BMC Helix CMDB in an import dataset specific to the discovery product. Discovered data must be reconciled from the import datasets into the production dataset, which is BMC.Asset. Reconciliation combines the data from multiple datasets into the production BMC.Asset dataset where the data can be consumed by applications such as BMC Helix ITSM: Asset Management.


BMC Helix CMDB stores the discovered data from Discovery into the import dataset. The reconciliation job reconciles the data from the import datasets to the production dataset that is BMC.ASSET. The reconciliation job combines the data from multiple datasets into the production dataset. For example, when working with the BMC Configuration Import and BMC.ADDM datasets, the reconciliation job uses the following jobs to consolidate data from the two datasets into the BMC.Asset dataset:

  • Configuration Discovery Reconciliation Process — Reconciles the BMC Configuration Import dataset with the BMC.Asset dataset
  • BMC Helix Discovery Reconciliation Process — Reconciles the BMC.ADDM dataset with the BMC Asset dataset

Related topics

Learning about reconciliation

Learning about the common data model

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BMC Helix CMDB enables you to create datasets, each of which holds a distinct set of configuration data. Datasets can store data from a variety of discovery applications for the BMC Helix CMDB. The same computer system or other CIs can exist in more than one dataset.


The following table shows the various BMC Helix CMDBdatasets created by different sources:



Important

  • If any other source such as BMC. ADDM creates a CI, no record in AST:Attribute is created for the corresponding CI. The record in AST:Attribute is created only after reconciliation, when the CI is pushed to the BMC.ASSET dataset.
  • Reconciliation is an required for Software License Management (SWLM) because SWLM uses data only from the production dataset.

 

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