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(In the Subject line, enter SupID:yourSupportContractID , such as SupID:12345.) ■ In the United States and Canada, call 1 800 537 1813. Outside the United States and Canada, contact your local support center for assistance. ■ Submit a new issue at http://www.bmc.com/support_home. 4 BMC Remedy Asset Management User Guide Contents About this Book 13 Audience ..........................................................................................................................13 BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite documents .........................................14 Conventions .....................................................................................................................17 Chapter 1 Introducing BMC Remedy Asset Management 19 About BMC Remedy Asset Management ..................................................................19 BMC Remedy ITSM usability enhancements .............................................................20 Where to find features and fields that have moved ..................................................23 User interface standards for field labels ......................................................................23 Icons used in the interface .............................................................................................24 Using BMC Remedy Asset Management with other products ................................24 Installing and configuring BMC Remedy Asset Management ...............................25 User roles .........................................................................................................................26 Approver ...............................................................................................................27 Configuration administrator ..............................................................................27 Contract manager ................................................................................................28 Financial manager ................................................................................................28 Purchasing agent ..................................................................................................28 Software asset manager ......................................................................................29 User scenarios ..................................................................................................................29 Calbro Services .....................................................................................................30 BMC Remedy Asset Management user scenarios ...........................................30 Chapter 2 Getting started 41 About the IT Home Page ...............................................................................................41 Configuring the IT Home Page ..........................................................................44 Using Global search .............................................................................................45 Navigating consoles, forms, and modules .................................................................46 Using the Asset Management console .........................................................................49 Functional areas of the Asset Management console .......................................50 Using the functions on the Asset Management console ................................53 Using the KPI flashboards ..................................................................................54 Searching for CIs ..................................................................................................58 Broadcasting a message ......................................................................................63 Changing datasets ................................................................................................66 Contents 5 Performing bulk updates ....................................................................................66 Creating reminders ..............................................................................................68 Modifying your application preferences ..........................................................68 Using the Overview console .........................................................................................69 Functional areas of the Overview console .......................................................70 Console List table .................................................................................................72 Selecting status values .........................................................................................73 Role-based consoles ........................................................................................................74 Chapter 3 Working with configuration items 77 Overview of a CI .............................................................................................................77 CIs and other BMC products ..............................................................................77 Overview of the CI form .....................................................................................78 Categorizing CIs .............................................................................................................79 Setting the company and location of a CI ...................................................................80 Providing access to a CI for multiple companies .......................................................80 Using a sandbox dataset for CI data ............................................................................81 Working with discovered CIs .......................................................................................81 Creating CIs .....................................................................................................................82 Creating a Computer System CI ........................................................................83 Creating a Bulk Inventory CI .............................................................................86 Adding bulk inventory to a storage location ...................................................86 Viewing CI audits ...........................................................................................................87 Viewing a notification audit of a CI .................................................................87 Viewing a BMC Atrium CMDB audit of a CI ..................................................88 Exploring CI relationships .............................................................................................88 Using BMC Atrium Impact Simulator .........................................................................89 Functional areas of the BMC Atrium Impact Simulator console ..................91 Running an impact simulation ..........................................................................91 Creating relationships in a topology ............................................................................92 Using network topologies to diagnose problems ...........................................92 Relating CIs in a network topology ..................................................................93 Chapter 4 Leveraging secondary CI features 95 Adding work information .............................................................................................95 Relating people, organizations, and groups to CIs ....................................................96 Working with configurations ........................................................................................99 Viewing configuration information ..................................................................99 Adding a configuration to a CI ........................................................................100 Working with related items .........................................................................................100 Viewing relationship details for a computer system CI ...............................101 6 BMC Remedy Asset Management User Guide Creating records from the Relationships tab .................................................102 Relating records to CIs ......................................................................................103 Using relationship quick actions .....................................................................104 Working with costs .......................................................................................................106 Adding costs .......................................................................................................106 Working with maintenance schedules and audit schedules .................................107 Creating a schedule ...........................................................................................107 Relating a schedule to a CI ...............................................................................109 Searching for and modifying a schedule ........................................................109 Changing the status for a schedule .................................................................111 Managing decommission schedules ..........................................................................111 Notification of a virtual machine scheduled for decommission .................114 Creating outage information .......................................................................................114 CI unavailability lifecycle .................................................................................115 Creating a blackout schedule ......................................................................................118 Creating a one-time blackout schedule ..........................................................119 Creating a recurring blackout schedule ..........................................................120 Performing additional functions on the CI form .....................................................121 Chapter 5 Requisition management 125 Overview of the purchasing process .........................................................................125 Creating purchase requisitions ...................................................................................129 Specifying purchase items manually ..............................................................132 Purchase requisition states ...............................................................................136 Obtaining pricing ...............................................................................................136 Pricing purchase items ......................................................................................136 Submitting the purchase requisition for approval ........................................138 Approving the purchase requisition ...............................................................138 Modifying rejected purchase requisitions ......................................................140 Working with purchase requisitions .........................................................................141 Modifying purchase items ................................................................................141 Removing purchase items ................................................................................142 Holding a purchase requisition .......................................................................143 Canceling a purchase requisition ....................................................................143 Viewing purchase requisitions in the console ..........................................................144 Searching for purchase requisitions ...........................................................................144 Working with purchase orders ...................................................................................145 Searching for purchase orders .........................................................................145 Completing a purchase order ...........................................................................146 Placing uploads/Management/ am-user-guide.pdf
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