Configuration Management System 2022.x Advanced

This course is recommended for:

• Those in charge of Configuration Management and the documentation and storage of business services and their related assets and relationships.
• Project managers,application modelers,discovery engineers,and UCMDB implementation consultants.
• Integration specialists implementing data federation across the different business silo sand software product families.

Upon successful completion of this course,you should be able to:

• Integrate multiple Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) and explain the integration components and process
• Develop new adapters: discovery and integration
• Use UCMDB data in your adapters
• Develop your own Jython scripts for your adapter
• Develop your own Generic database adapter and federate data into UCMDB or populate UCMDB with data
• Develop your own Java integration adapter
• Use the UCMDB API for Java adapters
• Develop your own XML push adapters
• Explain the Web Services push adapter
• Develop Java code using the UCMDB API
• Use the UCMDB Java API for querying and populating the UCMDB
• Develop your own Web Services client
• Use the UCMDB Web Service API for querying and populating the UCMDB
• Use the UCMDB REST API

Module 1: Course Overview

Module 2: CMS End-to-end Scenario

• Define CMDB and Configuration Management System (CMS)
• Describe the relationships between Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM),Information Technology Asset Management (ITAM),and CMS
• List CMS use cases
• Explain different integration methods
• Explain the different ways to consume data

Module 3: Integrations

• Identify UCMDB integrations
• Define the integration types
• Define integration point,adapter,and job
• Use the Integration Studio to setup integrations
• Integrate UCMDB and Service Manager
• Integrate multiple UCMDBs
• Use the Visual Mapping Tool

Module 4: Adapter Development and Writing

• Explain the need for development writing
• Describe the Adapter development lifecycle
• List the Adapter components
• List the ways to access the CMDB data
• Explain the differences between adapter types
• Name the best practice in Adapter development
• Describe remote process execution

Module 5: Developing Jython Adapters

• Explain Python and Jython
• Describe Python basics
• Explain the Jython adapter structure
• Explain the ObjectStateHolder
• Describe a framework instance
• Name OOTB UCMDB libraries

Module 6: Developing Generic DB Adapters

• Describe the Generic Database Adapter (GDBA)
• Describe Java Hibernate
• Name the preparation for adapter steps
• Recognize the mapping tags
• List the differences between Federation and Population
• List GDBA limitations

Module 7: Developing Java Adapters

• Describe Java adapters
• Describe the Federation Framework
• List the federation framework capabilities
• Use Java adapter resources

Module 8: Developing Generic Push Adapters

• Describe the Generic push Adapter
• Differentiate between XML and the Web Services push adapter
• Prepare the push adapter
• Use push adapter Jython Script writing
• Use the differential synchronization technique
• List Generic push adapter best practices

Module 9: Using Data Flow Management API

• List Data Flow Management (DFM) API use cases
• Describe the DFM API
• Use the DFM API documentation and access the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file
• Describe the DFM code general structure
• Use DFM code examples

Module 10: Using Data Flow Management API

• Name UCMDB API use cases
• Describe the UCMDB API
• Describe the UCMDB API flow
• Use the UCMDB API general structure
• Use UCMDB API code samples

Module 11: Using the CMDB Web API

• Name uses for the Web Services API
• Describe the UCMDB Web Services API
• Access the Web Services API
• Use the UCMDB API general structure
• Explain UCMDB update using Web Services
• Use code samples

Module 12: Use REST API

• Name uses for the REST API
• Describe the UCMDB REST API
• Access the REST API
• Use the REST API

Appendix A: Working with Python

• Work with Strings
• Work with Lists
• Control Flow Syntax
• Describe Advance Programming
• Work on Regular Expression

To be successful in this course,you should have the following prerequisites or knowledge:

• Successful completion of UCMDB120 UCMDB x Essentials and UD120 Universal Discovery 2020.x Essentials.
• At least 6 months experience with UCMDB & Universal

Prior experience with a scripting language such as Python,Perl,etc.