To establish integration with Azure DevOps, configure the following connectors, flows, and connector targets. You need to set up tenant level configurations. BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management provides out-of-the-box mappings and application level configurations required for the integration. After you complete the integration, you can broker tickets from Remedy ITSM to Azure DevOps, sync Azure DevOps ticket details to Remedy ITSM and so on. Each flow in the list of flows is essentially a feature that you can use. Depending upon your use case, you might have to configure multiple flows. BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management logically chains the flows and connector processes to complete the feature.
List of connectors for integration with Azure DevOps
You must configure the following connectors when setting up integration with Azure DevOps. These connectors are integration points for the respective applications. For instance, to send the data from BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management to Azure DevOps, you must configure a flow from Multi-Cloud connector to Azure DevOps connector.
ITSM connector
Configuration
If you are integrating BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management with an on-premises instance of Remedy ITSM, enter the following values:
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| Select the site that you created for Remedy. |
| Enter the name of your on-premises AR System server. |
| Enter the port number for your on-premises AR System server. |
- Account
Add a Remedy ITSM user account that has permissions to view business service requests and permissions to update incidents, change, or problem requests.
Multi-Cloud connector
- Configuration
While activating BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management, BMC configures the Multi-Cloud connector. Do not modify the default Multi-Cloud connector configuration.
Account
BMC sets up the account for the Multi-Cloud connector.
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to re-authenticate after you have changed the password for your tenant administrator user account in BMC Helix Innovation Studio.
For information about changing the user password, see Creating or modifying Person data.
Azure DevOps connector
Configuration
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| Enter a name for the connector configuration. |
| Select Cloud as the site. |
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Azure DevOps Services Organization | Enter the name of the organization define for Azure DevOps Services. |
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- Account
- Add the account of a Azure DevOps user who can view and update work items.
SMTP Email connector
Configuration
To send email notifications for errors, specify values for the following fields:
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| Enter a name for the connector configuration. |
| Select the appropriate site for your email server. |
| Select the type of connection for your email server. |
- Account
Add an email account to be used for sending error notifications
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List of flows for integration with Azure DevOps
You can configure the following flows when setting up integration with Azure DevOps. Each flow is self descriptive, for example to create an incident in Remedy ITSM from Azure DevOps, you must configure Create Incident from Azure DevOps flow.
Create DevOps Incident flow
Trigger
You need to set a trigger condition for this flow to determine which Incidents should be sent to Azure DevOps. For example, you can use the following triggers:
- Status = Resolved
- Status Reason = Future Enhancement
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The Create DevOps Incident flow can be used to send incidents to other DevOps vendors like Jira. Use the Technology Service mapping to determine the Vendor the incident should be sent to. Usually, the mapping is based on a value on the incident, and is defined in the flow.
For Azure DevOps, the Webhook Condition Parameter defined in the Field Mappings sets the Technology Service to Azure DevOps if the value of Resolution Category 2 is set to Azure DevOps.
Field Mapping
The following values are mapped out-of-the-box:
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Selection of the Azure DevOps as vendor service is based on the Webhook Condition Parameter field mapping. The Webhook Condition Parameter field is mapped to Resolution Category. If Resolution Category Tier 2 is Azure DevOps , the value of the parameter is set to Azure DevOps else If Resolution Category Tier 2 is any other value, the parameter is set to blank quotes " " and any transformation defined for the Technology Service field is used to determine the vendor service.
Warning
Do not modify the Webhook Condition Parameter defined in the field mapping.
Create Azure DevOps Work Item flow
- Trigger
Do not modify the trigger condition defined for this flow. The trigger is based on a Webhook subscription defined in BMC Helix Platform.
Field Mapping
This flow is a series of sub-flows. Field mappings are defined for each sub-flow.
Warning
Do not modify the Webhook Condition Parameter defined in the field mapping.
Flow Target 1 - Azure DevOps (BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management to Azure DevOps fields)
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Flow Target 2 - Multi-Cloud (BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management fields)
BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management fields | BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management fields | |
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| | Default value is set to New. |
| | Using the Webhook Condition parameter value set in the BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management incident, value is set to Azure DevOps |
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| | Default value is set to Incident. |
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Flow Target 3 (BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management to Remedy ITSM fields)
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| | Incident Number is added as a label on the issue. |
| | Using the Webhook Condition parameter value set in the BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management incident, value is set to Azure DevOps |
Create Incident from Azure DevOps flow
- Trigger
Set the Work Item Type value to the type of Azure DevOps work item you want to broker.
Ensure that the value of the Tags field matches to (INC|CRQ)\d+.
Field Mapping (Azure DevOps to BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management mapping)
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Set the Webhook Condition Parameter to Remedy.
Create Change from Azure DevOps flow
- Trigger
Do not change the out-of-the-box trigger conditions.
Field Mapping (Azure DevOps to BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management mapping)
The following table lists the out-of-the-box field mappings. You must set the target values for Company, Vendor, Customer First Name, Customer Last Name fields when using the flow from the template.
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Sync Azure DevOps work item flow
- Trigger
Ensure that value of the Tags field matches to (INC|CRQ)\d+.
Field Mapping
The following out-of-the-box field mappings should not be changed:
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Sync Azure DevOps work item flow
- Trigger
Ensure that Tags contains INC.
Field Mapping
The following out-of-the-box field mappings should not be changed:
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Sync Azure DevOps WorkItem Comment flow
- Trigger
Ensure that Tags contains INC.Do not delete Web hooks filter trigger conditions.
Field Mapping
Do not change the following out-of-the-box field mappings.
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| Add source fields, target values, or text |
| Add source fields, target values, or text |
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| Add source fields, target values, or text |
| Add source fields, target values, or text |
| Add source fields, target values, or text |
Note
To send a comment from Azure DevOps to Remedy ITSM, use $mcsm keyword before the comment in the Azure DevOps work item.
Multi-Cloud Worklog to Azure DevOps comment flow
- Trigger
Do not modify the trigger condition defined for this flow. The trigger is based on a Webhook subscription defined in BMC Helix Platform.
Field Mapping (Azure DevOps to BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management mapping)
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Tag Azure DevOps Work Item with Remedy Incident Number
Warning
Do not modify the values defined for this flow. The values defined in this flow are used internally by BMC Helix Platform to add the Azure DevOps work item with the corresponding Remedy Incident ID.
Trigger
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- Field Mapping
This flow is a series of sub-flows. Field mappings are defined for each sub-flow.Flow Target 1 - Multi-Cloud (BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management to Azure DevOps fields)
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| | Value is set to Azure DevOps. Do not change this value. |
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Flow Target 2 - Azure DevOps (BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management fields)
BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management fields | BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management fields | |
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| | Incident Number is included in the Summary and also added as a label on the issue. |
Tag Azure DevOps Work Item with Remedy Change Number flow
Warning
Do not modify the values defined for this flow. The values defined in this flow are used internally by BMC Helix Platform to add the Azure DevOps work item with the corresponding Remedy Change ID.
Trigger
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| Retain the webhook condition |
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- Field Mapping
This flow is a series of sub-flows. Field mappings are defined for each sub-flow.
Source: Multi-Cloud connector | Flow Target 1 - BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management fields | Flow Target 2 - Azure DevOps field |
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Send Error Notification flow
Field Mapping
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| Enter the email account that will receive the error notification. |
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Note
You can change the following out-of-the-box field mappings:
However, BMC recommends that you retain the existing mappings.
List of connector targets for integration with Azure DevOps
When a ticket is brokered from any vendor to Remedy ITSM, the ticket data first comes in BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management before being sent to Remedy ITSM. To send the data from BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Service Management to Remedy ITSM, you must configure the MCSM Remedy ITSM connector target and set it in the Connector Process Remedy ITSM.
MCSM Remedy ITSM connector target
For the MCSM Remedy ITSM connector target, define the connection configuration and profile required by the connector process.