Using Tivoli Business Service Manager to monitor objects in the database

An additional type of integration of which you can take advantage is based on the Discovery Library Adapter (DLA) mechanism. A DLA can send resource information to Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB) without the overhead of a Web Application Server, database, or other middleware. To integrate with the CCMDB via the Discovery Library, all an application needs to do is produce an XML file containing the resource information.

The DLA provided with HCL Workload Automation is capable of processing snapshots of the Application and Workstation data bases sent by HCL Workload Automation for Z.

The overall procedure consists in the following steps:

On HCL Workload Automation for Z run the REXX execs that generate the lists of applications, operations, and workstations (in the form of data sets) from the data base. Samples of the execs are provided in the product and they are discussed later.
Copy or forward the data sets onto an HCL Workload Automation master domain manager where CCMDB is installed.
On the master domain manager, go to the TWA_home/tws/CCMDB directory and run the dataxtract command to create an XML file (also called Discovery Library book - IdML book) that includes the contents of the three data sets.
The format of the XML file is:
```
ITWS950.hostname.timestamp.refresh.xml
```
Copy or send the XML file on the computer running Tivoli Business Service Manager.
Here, process the file as defined in Processing the Discovery Library book file in Tivoli Business Service Manager to write it into the data base of Tivoli Business Service Manager.
In Tivoli Business Service Manager this information can be catalogued as SERVICE OBJECTS based on LOB (lines of business) to complement the information received by the Event Integration Facility (EIF) probe from HCL Workload Automation for Z through the event pump mechanism (described in Using Tivoli Business Service Manager to monitor operations in the plan).