Roger, THANK YOU for your help with this. To answer your last sentence first, I have next to no experience with CMDB. I've been to Lenny's Bootcamp class (before I knew anything at all, so a lot of that was lost in translation), have read "Step-by-Step Guide to Building a CMDB (Updated for ITIL Version 3)", attended BMC ITSM training, a week of Tideway training, and finally, Kinetic training. (Except for the Kinetic training, all of the other training was crunched into less than a month - information overload.)
I was thinking that using the reconciliation engine (RE) was the method I'd
use, however in reading through the CMDB book I have from RMI, it appeared
on the surface that RE is used when you have two or more data sources you
are wanting to pull into one data set, to normalize the different data for
the same field or class. I suspected it would be used as well if you had
only a single source. But so far I've been unable to find instructions on
how to do that. (We have only the Tideway/ADDM 8.1 appliance as a data
source.)
The information you have provided will, I think, go a long ways towards
helping me get started. My current CMDB is empty, so if I wreck it, I
should be able to start over. However it's going into production within the
six weeks or so. I don't have to have every ultimate CI in the CMDB,
however I *do* need to have all of the servers, and at least the shells of
some apps installed by then.
If you know of a good document that may be of use, or if you have any other
suggestions or advice, I'd be most-grateful if you passed them along.
Sincerely,
Sam
-- Sam Morris
Service Assurance
Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha NE
402-544-2443 (Office)
402-490-8775 (Cellular)
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You will want to use the reconciliation engine and you will need to modify
your Identification rules to only computer systems that meet your criteria.
My present customer is using ADDM 8.1 and the naming convention as well as
the Product categorizations are interesting. Do you have Asset Management
loaded? if you do I would suggest that you use it to review your computer
systems. You can also open the form BMC_BaseElement that will allow you to
select your specific dataset and CI Type to review you data.
I do have one question, how much experience do you have with CMDB?
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Thank you for your reply Roger. Please accept my apology for being
ambiguous in my question.
I have ran Discovery with the Tideway/ADDM appliance.
I've ran the cmdb sync from Tideway's Berkeley database and pushed it into
BMC.ADDM.
For the CI Type Computer System, I have the 2000 or so servers, but I also
have 4000 workstations, and other odds and ends that have been classified
as Computer System. At this point, I wish to only take the actual Redhat,
Windows, and Novell servers from BMC.ADDM and get them into BMC.ASSET.
Using the Atrium Core Console as I explained below, I had hoped to be able
to list all of the Computer Systems that are in fact, Servers, and not list
the Computer Systems that are workstations, etc. Once I can view the
servers reliably, my next chore is to get them into BMC.ASSET via
Reconciliation Job, or by whatever means is preferred.
Respectfully,
Sam
-- Sam Morris
Service Assurance
Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha NE
402-544-2443 (Office)
402-490-8775 (Cellular)
email: sam at up (-period-) com
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Hello List,
I'm using AR 7.5 patch 4 and CMDB 7.6 patch 1, running on Redhat RHEL 5.
I'm new to this world, and it may very well be that I'm trying to do
something that is not supported. Using ADDM 8.1, I've gathered some 7000
CIs, of which, about 2000 are servers. All of the servers have one of two
unique naming conventions. My goal is to pull just the servers into sandbox
for Demo, then promote them into BMC.ASSET.
When I go into Atrium Core Console, then into Explorer, then choose the
"Find" accordion folder/tab, if I simply choose "Search" I get back all of
the CIs. But I've been unable to filter this list at all, using any of the
"built in" options. For instance, if I choose "Computer with OS" and then
for the "OS Type", choose "Linux" and click "Search", I get zero results
back. Even though I know there are hundreds of CIs with a Linux OS, and can
see them when I do the unqualified search.
If I can figure out how to accomplish this one search/display filter, I
imagine I can apply the same principle to others. Can someone please tell
me what I'm missing (or the relevant documentation that will help)? I've
read hundreds of pages in the BMC online documentation as well as an RMI
CMDB course booklet (600 pages itself - nothing to sneeze at) :) and have
so far been unsuccessful.
Thanks,
Sam
-- Sam Morris
Service Assurance
Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha NE
402-544-2443 (Office)
402-490-8775 (Cellular)
email: sam -a-t- up (-period-) com
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