Integration composer overview

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Integration composer transforms and imports inventory data about deployed hardware and software. This inventory data is imported from a discovery or system management tool database into the Maximo IT database tables for deployed assets or configuration items.

With Integration composer, an enterprise can aggregate data collected by external discovery tools and integrate it into the Maximo IT database, creating a central repository for enterprise IT asset management, reporting, and decision support. The Maximo IT database is the repository used by Maximo IT.

To collect the data about deployed assets or configuration items, a discovery tool scans computers, network devices, and network printers deployed in an enterprise and records information about the hardware and software it finds there. Integration composer uses an integration adapter to transform the data collected by the discovery tool and move it from the discovery tool database into the Maximo IT database.

You can view imported data from various applications on your system. The data is also used to generate reports.

Note: Integration composer is used to import hardware and software inventory data from a discovery tool database into the Deployed Asset, Actual CI, or (for the purposes of asset initialization) Asset tables in the Maximo IT database. The import or export of data into or out of other tables within the Maximo IT database is accomplished using a different tool, the integration framework.

For more information on Integration Composer, download the Integration Composer Administrator Guide.