Enable multi-tenancy for the BSM Business Impact Report integration

Applies to User Roles:

System Administrator

The BSM Business Impact Report integration provides multi-tenancy support, which allows an Incident Management user to launch BSM Business Impact Report based on the UCMDB Customer ID of the user's company.

To enable multi-tenancy for this integration, you need to complete the following tasks:

  1. Enable multi-tenancy in Service Manager.
  2. Synchronize companies between Service Manager and UCMDB.
  3. Synchronize companies between BSM and UCMDB.

If you have enabled multi-tenancy for the integration, when a user launches a Business Impact Report from an incident, the business impact report is displayed not only in the context of the incident's related Business Service or Affected CI, but also based on the Customer ID of the company record retrieved from the user's contact information.

Note: You can click the Find icon for a user's Contact ID field to find information about the company associated to the user.

To enable multi-tenancy in Service Manager:

  1. Log on to Service Manager.
  2. Go to System Administration >Base System Configuration > Miscellaneous > System Information Record.
  3. In the General tab, select Run in Multi-Company Mode.
  4. In the Active Integrations tab, do the following:

    • Select HPE Universal CMDB.
    • In the Multi-tenant UCMDB webservice URL field, type the URL to the multi-tenant UCMDB Web Service API. The URL has the following format:

      <UCMDB server name>:<port>/axis2/services/ucmdbManagementService

      Replace <UCMDB server name> with the host name of your UCMDB server, and replace <port> with the communications port your UCMDB server uses.

    • In the

    Note The UCMDB webservice URL, UserID, and Password fields are not required for enabling multi-tenancy.

  5. Log off and then log back on to Service Manager so that the configuration takes effect.

To synchronize a company between Service Manager and UCMDB:

  1. Go to System Administration > Base System Configuration > Companies.
  2. Open an existing company record or create a new one.

    1. To open an existing company record, click Search and select the record from the list.
    2. To create a new company record, type a Customer ID, Company Code, and Company Name for the new record, and then click Add.
  3. In the Company tab, complete the following fields:

    • In the Customer ID field, type a unique ID number. For example, 2.
    • In the Customer Code field, type a unique code name.
    • In the field, select Yes.
  4. Click OK.
  5. When prompted to confirm if you want to synchronize this company with UCMDB, select Yes.

To synchronize a company between BSM and UCMDB:

For information about how to synchronize a company between BSM and UCMDB, refer to the BSM documentation.