Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Overview
The federation mechanism that is built into Universal CMDB enables UCMDB to be used as a contact repository for sharing data among external applications, without duplicating it. By federating data from Configuration Manager to UCMDB, external applications can consume its analysis information in various ways:
- Use UCMDB's reporting functionality to generate and schedule reports on top of Configuration Manager's data.
- Consume Configuration Manager's data in other HPE applications, such as HPE Business Service Management.
- Use Configuration Manager's analysis data as a basis for making decisions in other applications.
Configuration Manager exposes the following data for federation:
- Policy compliance status data includes information about current policy result data for managed CIs and the associated policies.
- Authorization status data includes information about the authorization status of managed CIs.
UCMDB provides the class model for the schema for the model to be shared, and uses a federation TQL query as the way to consume data in UCMDB on the fly. For details, see "Federating KPIs" in the HPE Universal CMDB Configuration Manager User Guide.
KPI means Key Performance Indicator. The UCMDB provides the CMKpiAdapter to federate KPI information about policy and authorization status from Configuration Manager. The data that is federated from Configuration Manager populates the Kpi and KpiObjective CITs, and can be retrieved by TQL as described in Create KPI Reports.
