Achieving Data Push using the Generic Adapter

Data Push uses the existing Enhanced Generic Push Adapter framework with minor XML schema changes.

Note The Generic Adapter works in instance mode (meaning it does not work with single CI types, but with collections of CIs grouped together by a main root CI). For more information, see Instance-Based Population Flow.

The XML schema changes needed to accommodate bidirectional mapping semantics are:

  • the <targetcis> tag has been renamed to <target_entities>.
  • the <source_instance_type> tag has been renamed to <source_instance>.
  • the <target_ci_type> tag has been renamed to <target_entity>.
  • the <for-each-source-ci> tag thas been renamed to <for-each-source-entity>.
  • the header versions attribute has been renamed to version and no longer requires a decimal.

This section provides information about pushing data using the Generic Adapter Framework: