Best Practices Conversion Utility Overlays Webex Overview

Date 12th December 2011

Overview
Best Practices Conversion Utility (BPCU). 48 minutes. Cuts off at 48:30. Technical. Easy to follow, good information on Overlays and Customised objects. Time Details 00:00:19

Useful for understanding what will needs to be converted to overlays or custom objects when upgrading to 7.604 AR custom applications need to be converted into an overlay or new custom object. There are some exceptions to this core server objects that should not be customized anyway. It also does not work on custom object built and inserted through the back end.

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e.g. Asset management object is customized- base application set this can be saved by creating an overlay object, and AR system maintains the stock object so future upgrades arent impeded.

00:08:00 Demo Comes from installation media - for customer. For us, the developers network. There is a directory on the install Ensure that you have the latest version of the overlay hash file. This gives the latest version of all the standard objects that come with the system This is where you get it

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Logs into AR system server needs sys adm password Extracts the definition of all the objects Takes a while to run, avg 20mins or so. Goes into comparison mode your version versus the baseline in the hash file. AR 7.604 install guide has the best documentation p 143 -T option defaults to HTML, can choose .csv file Do first run on a non-production server. Do it on a test server, so validate it, because you are going to be modifying objects. P147 of guide - -S (suffixes) P for prefixes Whenever you modify an object you would prefix or suffix it. These are long time best practices from BMC. The list of pre and suffixes can be examined and when they are to be incorporated into the overlay, they are stripped off. It is now an Overlay and is incorporated for moving forward. It is now marked as a custom object. Output file example

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Customizations would be converted into Overlays these are the modified objects

Drilldown lists on for all the modifications This doesnt tell you HOW it has been customised. (Would need Remedy Migrator tool) 00:33:00 Shows the reports and the data that is produced.

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Problem is that you need a migrator file from an non-modified install in order to make the comparison. It works with 6.x as well as 7.x, refer to the documentation you can compare 6.x with latest 7.604 hash file.

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