Configuration Management System Advanced

Module 1: Course Overview

Module 2: CMS End-to-end Scenario

Define CMDB and Configuration Management System (CMS) Describe the relationships between Service Asset and ConfigurationManagement (SACM), Information Technology Asset Management (ITAM), and CMS List CMS use cases Explain different integration methods Explain the different ways to consume data

Module 3: Integrations

Identify UCMDB integrations Define the integration types Define integration point, adapter, and job Use the Integration Studio to setup integrations Integrate UCMDB and Service Manager Integrate multiple UCMDBs Use the Visual Mapping Tool

Module 4: Adapter Development and Writing

Explain the need for development writing Describe the Adapter development lifecycle List the Adapter components List the ways to access the CMDB data Explain the differences between adapter types Name the best practice in Adapter development Describe remote process execution

Module 5: Developing Jython Adapters

Explain Python and Jython Describe Python basics Explain the Jython adapter structure Explain the ObjectStateHolder Describe a framework instance Name OOTB UCMDB libraries

Module 6: Developing Generic DB Adapters

Describe the Generic Database Adapter (GDBA) Describe Java Hibernate Name the preparation for adapter steps Recognize the mapping tags List the differences between Federation and Population List GDBA limitations

Module 7: Developing Java Adapters

Describe Java adapters Describe the Federation Framework List the federation framework capabilities Use Java adapter resources Recognize Java adapter structure Use Java adapter coding Use logging and debugging

Module 8: Developing Generic Push Adapters

Describe the Generic push Adapter Differentiate between XML and the Web Services push adapter Prepare the push adapter Use push adapter Jython Script writing Use the differential synchronization technique List Generic push adapter best practices

Module 9: Using Data Flow Management API

List Data Flow Management (DFM) API use cases Describe the DFM API Use the DFM API documentation and access the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file Describe the DFM code general structure Use DFM code examples

Module 10: Using Data Flow Management API

Name UCMDB API use cases Describe the UCMDB API Describe the UCMDB API flow Use the UCMDB API general structure Use UCMDB API code samples

Module 11: Using the CMDB Web API

Name uses for the Web Services API Describe the UCMDB Web Services API Access the Web Services API Use the UCMDB API general structure Explain UCMDB update using Web Services Use code samples

Module 12: Use REST API

Name uses for the REST API Describe the UCMDB REST API Access the REST API Use the REST API

Appendix A: Working with Python

Work with Strings Work with Lists Control Flow Syntax Describe Advance Programming Work on Regular Expression