Administration

Use the following topics to understand administration tasks.

Configuring authentication
You can customize secure access to, and between, core services.
Topology configuration
You can customize a number of Agile Service Manager UI elements for your deployment, such as tooltips, link styles and icons. You can also create custom tools which users can access through a topology's context menu, and create custom processing rules for topology data.
Configuring retention period for resource history
Agile Service Manager retains historical topology data for a default period of 30 days. You can increase this to a maximum of 90 days by increasing the 'time to live' (TTL) value.
Increasing default timeouts
To give your deployment of Agile Service Manager enough time to process very large data sets, you can increase the default system timeout values.
Configuring the Helm chart to use alternate storage (OCP)
Agile Service Manager by default supports local volumes for storage on Kubernetes. To configure an alternate storage backend, you must set the storage class. This requires a manual command line installation, and not an installation via Helm.
Configuring geo-redundancy using the Kafka MirrorMaker feature (OCP)
You configure geo-redundancy to replicate data between two geographically distant sites so that Application Service Manager can switch from one site to another should a failure occur.
Porting data for testing, backup and recovery
You can create backups of your Agile Service Manager UI configuration data in order to run a test configuration, or simply to safeguard your custom settings. You can also back up and restore your topology data.
Launching in context from OMNIbus Event Viewer
You can set up launch-in-context functionality in DASH from a Netcool/OMNIbus Web GUI event list (Event Viewer) to an Agile Service Manager Topology Viewer portlet, using a DASH NodeClickedOn action event.
Using resource group templates
You can create resource group templates to generate resource groups, which search your topology database for instances that match its conditions. These resource groups are then listed on the Resource management page.
Improving database performance
You can improve the performance of Agile Service Manager, such as fine-tuning Cassandra database cluster operations.
Configuring scaling for OCP
You can scale your Agile Service Manager deployment vertically or horizontally, and you can scale out as well as in.
Logging
You can use configurable logging functionality to monitor system health and assist in troubleshooting.