Set up an entity type from the Core UI (UI16) view

  • Release version: Washingtondc
  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    • Set up an entity type from the Core UI (UI16) view in the Operational Resilience application so that you can define the data for a business entity.

    Before you begin

    Role required: sn_oper_res.admin

    About this task

    Note:
    If you have set up the entity types and pillars from the Workspace view in the earlier step (Create entity types and pillars and generate the entities), you can ignore this step and proceed to Setting up the Main node configurations.

    An entity in Governance, Risk, and Compliance can be a person, a process, a department, an application, or an object. An entity type in Governance, Risk, and Compliance is a group of the entities that have similar attributes.

    The entity type form in the Operational Resilience application is pre-configured with an entity filter that defines the data for an entity.

    You can use the pre-defined entity types that are provided with the base system or you can create an entity type depending on your business requirement. You can operate Operational Resilience by using these entity types as shipped, edit them as needed, or create entity types.

    To create an entity from an existing record, select the Add to OpRes reporting UI action, which adds the entity record to the entity type.

    Note:
    As an Operational Resilience administrator, you must perform the following tasks:
    1. Activate the necessary entity types.
    2. Activate the necessary entity filters.
    3. Create new or update the existing pillars and entity types.
    4. Generate entities based on the setup.
    The Operational Resilience managers cannot create the entity types, but they can update the entity types.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > Operational Resilience > Admin > Entity Types.
      Beginning with Release 20.1.x, the following entity types have been added in the tables:
      • Application Service
      • Service Offering
      • Business Services
      • Data
    2. Select the Name of an entity type record and view its details.

      In entity types, a combination of entity filters is used for selecting the entities into the entity types. By default, all entity types and entity filters are inactive in the application. You can activate the entity types and entity filters based on your needs.

      Note:
      The default entity types are used to pull data into the pillars of the application.
    3. To update the filter condition, select the Entity Filters related list and select Build your own conditions.
      Filter.
      Figure 1. Entity Filters
      Entity filters.

      The entity filter is used to define the table from which data is pulled into each entity type for display in the Operational Resilience application. The filter condition requires that the service classification field be set to "business service and operation," and the operational status of the service be "operational," as shown in the example. These conditions determine whether an entity type can have any entity records.

    4. Check the Entity filter related list in the form for Business Service and Application Service Entity types.
      Filters are applied to the entities:
      • Application Service: Service Instance [cmdb_ci_service_auto]
      • Business Service: Business Service [cmdb_ci_service_business]
    5. To create an entity type, return to the Entity Types screen, and select New.
      Figure 2. New entity type
      New entity type.
    6. On the form, fill in the fields.
      For a description of the field values, see Entity Type New record form.
    7. Select Submit.
      The newly defined entity type is listed in the Entity Types screen.

    What to do next

    Set up the main node configurations so that CMDB data can be fetched into Operational Resilience for reporting. For more information, see Setting up the Main node configurations.