Use the instructions in this topic to create a discovery
library adapter (DLA) output file.
Before you begin
You must be a repository administrator or a community administrator
to create a connection.
Procedure
- In the Rational® Asset Manager web
client, click Administration.
- Click the name of the community that you want to connect
to CCMDB.
- Click Connections.
- In the Change and Configuration Management Database section,
click New Connection.
- On the connection properties page, complete the form with
the details of the CCMDB installation.
- Name: Type a name for the connection. The
name can include spaces and special characters.
- Description: Optionally, type
a detailed description of the connection. The description can include
spaces and special characters.
- URL: Enter the fully qualified
URL, including the port number, to use when accessing the CCMDB application;
for example, https://www.example.com:9443.
- Login: Type the user ID of a
user authorized to access CCMDB.
- Password: Type the user's password
for accessing CCMDB.
- Default asset owner: Click Select
Owner to choose the Rational Asset Manager user
who will own the assets that are created in the Rational Asset
Manager repository from the CCMDB CIs.
- Synchronization schedule: Click Edit to
modify how frequently the Rational Asset Manager repository
will synchronize with the CCMDB repository. You can choose to synchronize
daily or weekly at a specific time, or at an interval specified in
minutes or hours.
- Click OK.
- When configuring CCMDB to use the Rational Asset
Manager repository as a definitive library, you can generate a Discovery
Library Adapter (DLA) output file that contains a list of specific
software assets that CCMDB will consume. To specify which assets will
be included in the DLA output file, you must define a search shortcut
that uniquely identifies those assets:
- Click Assets to go to the Search
for Assets page.
- Type a search string to use as the filter for your asset
list; for example, my_filter.
- Click the View search shortcut icon
below the search text field. A text field opens beside the icon with
the search shortcut; for example, ramSearch:(1txt,my_filter).
- Copy the entire search shortcut from the text field.
- Return to this Connection Properties page and paste the
search shortcut into the Search Text field.
- Now, generate the DLA output file:
- To create an output DLA file to be saved on the file system,
click Generate DLA Output.
- To generate the file and transfer the file using File Transfer
Protocol to a remote location, click Generate and Send
DLA Output.