Navigate the documentation

Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
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.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

UCMDB Documentation Set

Universal CMDB includes the following documents. Where the document is available from the Help Center, the name of the file is a link to access the PDF version.

Document	Description	Available Formats	Locations
Release Notes	Includes last minute information, fixed issues, and limitations.	PDF only	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB Administration Guide	Explains how to administer the Universal CMDB system and users.	PDF Online Help	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB Modeling Guide	Enables you to manage the content of your IT universe model.	PDF Online Help	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB Backup and Recovery Guide	Provides information on how to perform backup and recovery for the UCMDB Server, Data Flow Probes, and Configuration Manager.	PDF only
Universal CMDB Data Flow Management Guide	Explains how to integrate Universal CMDB with other data repositories and how to set up Universal CMDB to discover network components.	PDF Online Help	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB Configuration Manager User Guide	Provides tools to manage and control the data in your CMS.	PDF Online Help	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB Database Guide	Describes how to deploy and maintain Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Server databases for use with Universal CMDB.	PDF only	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB Deployment Guide	Provides instructions for installing and upgrading Universal CMDB and Universal CMDB Configuration Manager.	Interactive HTML document	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB Developer Reference Guide	For users with an advanced knowledge of Universal CMDB. Explains how to define and use adapters and how to use APIs to access data.	PDF Online Help	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB Discovery and Integrations Content Guide	Describes the activities, jobs and tools used by Universal Discovery to discover assets, infrastructure, and inventory, and to integrate with other Micro Focus Software and 3rd-party products.	Online Help (separate Help Center)	Universal Discovery Content Help Center
Universal CMDB Discovery and Integrations Content Guide	The UCMDB Universal Discovery Content Guide consists of 6 PDF files.	PDF Discovery Activities Discovery Modules General Reference Micro Focus Product Integrations Third Party Integrations Supported Content	Universal Discovery Content Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB Data Flow Management Best Practices	Provides best practices for working with the Data Flow Management module in UCMDB.	PDF only	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB Hardening Guide	Discusses the planning and architecture required to implement secure use of Universal CMDB.	PDF only	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB End-to-End Workflow Walkthrough Guide	Provides end-to-end workflow walkthrough instructions for selected typical scenarios.	PDF	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB FIPS Deployment Guide	This guide provides guidelines for switching the Micro Focus CMS products to FIPS mode and walks you through the entire FIPS migration process step-by-step to ensure that the FIPS mode can be successfully turned on for CMS 10.21 (and later).	PDF	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB JMX Reference Guide	Reference guide describing the JMX methods documented for Universal CMDB.	PDF only	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB Inventory Tools User Guide	Describes how to use the standalone inventory discovery tools that recognize software applications. These tools are the Viewer, Analysis Workbench, and SAI Editor.	PDF only	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site, Inventory Tools help
Universal CMDB Sizing Guide	Aims to help Universal CMDB (UCMDB) and Universal Discovery (UD) customers to right size your CMS infrastructure to support your CMDB strategy. The objective of sizing is to estimate the system resource required to ensure the deployed system meets the performance objectives.	PDF only	Micro Focus Support Site
Universal CMDB Support Matrix document	Lists the supported hardware and software for Universal CMDB.	PDF only	Help Center, Micro Focus Support Site, Support Matrices Site

API Reference

The following table lists the available API reference documentation and where it is located. The Developer Reference guide contains information on how to use these APIs, and links directly into them.

API Reference Documentation	Description	Location
UCMDB Web Service API	Enables writing configuration item definitions and topological relations to UCMDB, and querying the information with TQL and ad hoc queries.	<UCMDB root directory>\UCMDBServer\deploy\ucmdb-docs\docs\eng\APIs\CMDB_Schema\webframe.html
UCMDB Java API	Explains how third-party or custom tools can use the Java API to extract data and calculations and to write data to UCMDB.	<UCMDB root directory>\hp\UCMDB\UCMDBServer\deploy\ucmdb-docs\docs\eng\APIs\UCMDB_JavaAPI\index.html
Universal Discovery Web Service API	Enables managing probes, jobs, triggers and credentials for Data Flow Management.	<UCMDB root directory>\UCMDBServer\deploy\ucmdb-docs\docs\eng\APIs\DDM_Schema\webframe.html
Universal Discovery Java API	Supplies a well-defined SDK for writing adapters and scripts. The Data Flow Management SDK is used as the actual reference for the code implementation.	<UCMDB root directory>\UCMDBServer\deploy\ucmdb-docs\docs\eng\APIs\DDM_JavaDoc\index.html