Federated Data 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 applications, such as 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 Policy Compliance Data.

UCMDB provides two adapters to federate data from Configuration Manager to UCMDB. The adapters sit on top of UCMDB and carry out the operation to bring the federated data from Configuration Manager. For details about these adapters, see Federation Workflow with UCMDB.

For details, see Federating Policy Compliance Data and Federating KPIs.