Detailed Course Outline
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 Configuration Management (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 UCMDB 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 Advanced Programming
- Work on Regular Expression