BPPM 9.5 Quick Start - Part 1: Introduction

BPPM version 9.5 was officially released on January 31, 2014.  BPPM version 9.5 has made significant improvement over its previous version in ease of use, data integrity, and cost of ownership.  BPPM version 9.5 has completely redesigned its BPPM server, integration service node, and PATROL agent.

Shortly after the release, I had an opportunity to help a client to implement BPPM 9.5 in its development environment.  In this "BPPM 9.5 Quick Start" blog series, I am sharing some of my hands-on experience and lessons learned from my first-time BPPM 9.5 implementation.  My experience is by no means complete as it is impossible to implement all features in a short period of time. 

I am hoping that my experience would help you get an overall picture of BPPM 9.5 quickly without having to read through the entire 3,334 pages of BPPM 9.5 document.  I am hoping that this blog series would make you feel a little easier with BPPM 9.5 and get you started with BPPM 9.5 sooner.  If you have already started implementing BPPM 9.5, I would very much appreciate you for sharing your own experience with me.

In this project, we are migrating a previous version of BPPM running on UNIX and Sybase database to BPPM 9.5 running on Windows and Oracle database.  Essentially this is a brand new implementation in terms of architecture and capacity with additional work to migrate event processing rules for BPPM cells.

Here is the high-level order we have followed in the implementation:

• Architecture and capacity design
• Name convention
• Oracle database configuration
• BPPM central server & child server installation and configuration
• ISN (Integration Service Node) cluster installation and configuration
• Additional cell installation and configuration
• BPPM cell knowledge base migration
• CMA policy creation
• PATROL agent installation and configuration
• CMDB integration
• 3rd-party monitoring software event integration