IT Universe Manager Overview

IT Universe Manager enables you to manage the content of your IT Universe model. The following tasks represent the basic functionality of the application:

• Creating CIs without creating relationships. You can define new CIs that are added to the CMDB individually, so that no new relationships are created. For details, see Creating a Non-Related CI.

• Creating CIs with relationships for them. You can define new CIs and attach them to existing CIs, so defining a new CI and a new relationship in the CMDB. For details, see Creating a Related CI.

• Adding existing CIs and creating relationships for them. You can attach CIs to an existing CI, so creating new relationships for existing CIs. For details, see Attaching Existing CIs.

• Deleting CIs. You can delete CIs from the CMDB. For details, see Deleting CIs.

• Getting Impact Analysis results. You can run the Impact rules you defined for a view to simulate how certain defined changes impact your system, and to discover the root causes of the changes. For more information about Impact rules, see Impact Analysis Manager Overview.

• Taking a snapshot of a view. Universal CMDB enables you to display the status of a view in one snapshot by comparison with its status taken at a different time. For details on how to take snapshots, see How to Take a Snapshot of a View.

Populating the IT Universe Model

The IT Universe model in the CMDB contains the CIs and relationships produced by the CI-generating tools that operate within Universal CMDB. Most CIs and relationships originate from one of the following sources:

• Data Flow Management (DFM). Automatically creates CIs and relationships based on the discovered IT resources and topology in your company's infrastructure. For details, see Data Flow Management Overview.

• IT Universe Manager. Enables you to manually create CIs and relationships that represent logical and physical elements of the business. For details, see Working with CIs.

• Enrichment Manager. Enables you to add CIs and relationships to the CMDB by receiving data from the attributes of Enrichment query nodes as defined in the Enrichment TQL query. For details, see Enrichment Manager.

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