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 HPE applications, such as Business Service Management.
• Use Configuration Manager's analysis data as a basis for making decisions in other applications.

Configuration Manager exposes Policy compliance status data (which includes information about current policy result data for managed CIs and the associated policies) for federation.

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" in the Universal CMDB Configuration Manager User Guide.

UCMDB provides the CMPolicyAdapter to federate policy data from Configuration Manager, which populates the Policy and PolicyResult CITs, and can be retrieved by TQL as described in Create Policy Reports Based on CIs in a View or Custom TQL query and Create summary policy reports based on the CIs in a view or a custom TQL query.