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Views Overview
To begin working in Configuration Manager, you select views, which are defined in UCMDB, to manage in your Configuration Manager environment. These are known as the managed views. Managing a view includes tracking its history, defining policies for it, and managing its different states by authorizing changes.
The Views module controls the list of views being managed by Configuration Manager. All the views currently being managed appear in the list. You can add new views to the list and remove views that you no longer want to manage from the list. For details, see View Refresh Rate.
For each managed view, you should define the managed CI types in the view. You can only authorize changes in managed CI types. The non-managed CI types appear faded in the view. A CI type can be managed in different views at one time; however, the same composite CI should not be managed in more than one view. If a CI in one managed view is also managed in a different view, a warning message indicates the other views in which the CI is managed. For details about managing CI types, see Add/Edit Attribute Dialog Box.
Since managing large views and updating them can put a burden on the Configuration Manager and UCMDB systems, you can decide how often the information in a managed view should be updated. Specifying the view refresh rate helps to balance the workload. With a low view refresh rate, a view is updated once per day at a specified time. With a high view refresh rate (this is the default), the view is updated each time any change is detected in the managed CIs in the view, according to the Offline Analysis repeat interval.
Note You must have Authorize in CM or Manage in CM permission on at least one view to access the Views module.
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Authorize in CM permission on a specific view enables you to see and modify that view.
- Manage in CM permission on a specific view enables you to manage and unmanage that view.
In addition to selecting the views to manage, you can control how each view is managed by defining the following types of configuration behaviors:
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Delete Candidates. Enables you to remove CIs marked as candidates for deletion in UCMDB from the actual state of a view. For details, see Delete Candidate Policy Pane.
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Automatic State Transition. Enables you to define the conditions under which a view can be automatically authorized. For details, see Automatic State Transition.
These features can assist you by partially automating the management of the views.
After adding a view to the managed views list, the view appears on the View Summary page with other managed views, and you can access the view in Review/Authorize and the other modules.
Out-of-the-Box Views
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Configuration Manager comes with a group of out-of-the-box views that are available for use in UCMDB, ready for you to manage. These views are located in UCMDB in the following location: Modeling Studio > Resources tab (select Views as the resource type) > Configuration Manager > Configuration Manager - Do not modify > Automanaged Views folder.
There are several types of these views:
- All servers – you can manage a view that automatically contains either all Windows servers or all UNIX servers.
- Virtualized or non-virtualized clusters – you can manage a view that contains only non-HACMP, J2EE, MS, Oracle RAC, Service Guard, Sun, or Veritas machines.