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 Micro Focus 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 Micro Focus applications, such as Micro Focus 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 KPIs" in the Configuration Manager section of the UCMDB Help.

KPI means Key Performance Indicator. The UCMDB provides the CMKpiAdapter to federate KPI information about policy and authorization status from Configuration Manager. The data that is federated from Configuration Manager populates the Kpi and KpiObjective CITs, and can be retrieved by TQL as described in Create KPI Reports.