Thanks for the feedback. My performance concerns come from reading the
AIE user guide, page 22:
"While it is easy to add field mappings or extra rules for each
field, remember that each item you add is compared against every record in
your database."
So, for example, if during a people record update, I want to compare two
fields, say Phone Number and Address, from a source and target, the AIE
will search the DB for a matching userid, then check the phone number for
a difference. Then it will do another search for the same userid to check
for Address. And so on for every field I have mapped? That sounds like a
cartesian search. Or am I way off base, and can that be controlled in
some other way?
It looked like there was a high learning curve for AIE, so I wanted to
make sure it was worth even messing with before spending too much time on
it. Sounds like it is.
Thanks everyone,
Thad Esser
Remedy Developer
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We are using AIE to bring in data from an external Inventory Database (not
one that has a predefined mapping). The good thing is the mapping is
simple to create, since the CMDB CDM classes are readily available.
However, the bigger challenge for us was to get the external data (which
is in a flat data structure) organized in such a fashion as to map to the
CDM. We have been doing incremental get from the source data and building
relationships. I have not really seen any performance issues.
However, the UI is clunky and counter intuitive (in many places). But once
I figured out the ones that I cared about, it was easy to get used to...
BTW, we also have BMC Topology Discovery and that has an automatic feed
into the CMDB via the CMDB API. However, there is no control over what
data goes into the CMDB -- and this has been a drag for us, since anything
that was discovered was dumped into CMDB, so drawing meaningful
conclusions from the CMDB has been a royal pain, especially when trying to
provide a simple way for the Service Desk to use this data in a simple
manner. So, building another set of AIE jobs to bring data from TD,
instead of using the OOB integration is an option we are considering
instead of writing another set of API programs to do what TD is already
doing.
Cheers,
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Shyam
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And I'd be one of those that have used Croom's product successfully (in a
previous life). Its a great product.
I think one of the pieces I was missing was that AIE offers adapters to
link different types of databases (I see that in the manuals now - it just
didn't register with me the first time through). But other than providing
those links, I'm not getting how it simplifies an integration or offers
performance improvements over building my own? Does it come with
predefined mappings for CMDB? It seems I'd still have to create all those
anyway.
Apparently, I'm being dense this week - I appreciate the patience.
Thad Esser
Remedy Developer
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Drew,
The other alternative is of course to use Croom Consulting's
Link to External Databases which is an ARDBC-Plug-in and it comes in many
popular flavors DB2, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL, MySQL and etc.
http://www.buoyantsolutions.net/External_DB.html
There are many on this list that have used this solution successfully.
Regards...Gidd
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Thad,
AIE provides a decent integraion point between Remedy and other databases.
The interface is a little clunky, but it does what it's supposed to do.
The
alternative is to write your own interfaces.
Drew
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Thad K Esser wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for some input on the value of the Atrium Integration
> Engine - trying to decide if I want to use it or not. In reading
> through the manuals, it seems overly complicated and not all that
> efficient, but if someone can tell me its the next best thing since
> sliced bread (and mean it), I would appreciate your thoughts.
>
> ARS 7.1
> CMDB 2.1
> ITSM 7.0.2 (minus AM)
>
> Thank you,
> Thad Esser
> Remedy Developer
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