Defining business service and hierarchical group topology

For
Business Impact Manager
to import business service and hierarchical group topology from its source
Global Manager
, you define business service and hierarchal group topology in the two text import datafiles or the single XML import datafile identified in Business service and hierarchal group import datafiles for Business Impact Manager. The datafiles are located in the
installation area from which the source
Global Manager
is invoked.
Business service and hierarchal group import datafiles for Business Impact Manager
Whether you choose to use the two text import datafiles or the single XML import datafile to define service and group elements, the
Global Manager
will load the elements in the same way: At startup, the
Global Manager
loads the service and group elements and store them in its repository. “Specifying text or XML datafiles” on page 85 describes how to specify the import of text-format or XML-format import datafiles.
This section focuses on defining service and group elements in the service.data.template and topology-group.data.template files, respectively. Defining service and group elements in the service-group-data.xml file is identical to defining service and group elements in the two text files except that the definitions are in XML format. The format of the service-group-data.xml file (and the service-group-data-sample.xml file) is defined in the
BASEDIR
/smarts/conf/ics/bim-config.dtd file.