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# Setting Up the Integration Platform

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### Before you start

No license is required for integration with other supported products in the ASM Core family and LDAP-compliant directory servers.

However, for integration with any other supported external application (including custom connectors), your organization must be licensed for each individual connector with which you want to set up integration.

You must have **Integration Setup** selected in the Admin tab of your **General Access Security Role**.
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1. Select ≡ > **Admin** > **Integration**.

   Use the Integration Platform Settings window to enable the different components of the Integration Platform (Federated CMDB, Event Management and Integrated Actions).

   Use the Explorer pane to configure the following components:

   <table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="250"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Integration Platform Settings</td><td>opens/returns you to the <strong>Integration Platform Settings</strong> window, in which you can enable integration</td></tr><tr><td>Connectors</td><td>enables you to view and test the connectors installed on your ASM System, such as connectors for network discovery tools and directory servers</td></tr><tr><td>Sources</td><td>enables you to define and configure instances of external sources with which ASM Core can connect in order to import or update objects, manage alerts or exchange information</td></tr><tr><td>Scheduling</td><td><p>enables you to view and create schedules for running scans on sources for the purpose of importing external resources (applies only to the Federated CMDB).</p><p>Resources – enables you to view the resource types configured on a selected source and create mappings for each of these resource types (applies only to the Federated CMDB).</p></td></tr><tr><td>Links</td><td>enables you to view the resource link types configured on a selected source and create mappings for each of these link types (applies only to the Federated CMDB).</td></tr><tr><td>Events</td><td>enables you to configure event management in ASM Core</td></tr><tr><td>Outbound Actions</td><td>enables you to initiate actions into an external application</td></tr><tr><td>Inbound Actions</td><td>enables you to configure Inbound Actions</td></tr><tr><td>Activity</td><td>enables you to view the activity that occurred on the Integration Platform for a selected period, connector and source</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Enabling Integration <a href="#enabling" id="enabling"></a>

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### Before you start

Each third party connector you wish to configure to receive events from the external source must have been installed.

You must have **Integration Setup** selected in the Admin tab of your **General Access Security Role**.
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1. Select ≡ > **Admin** > **Integration**.
2. On the Integration Platform Settings window, select the **Enabled** check box for each component of the integration platform you want to enable.
3. After enabling each component, you can configure the integration supported by this component:

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="207"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Federated CMDB</td><td><p>enables integration with the Federated CMDB and discovery of data from network discovery tools or synchronize with LDAP-compliant directory servers to import users.</p><p>To display the cached resource properties of a definitive resource record rather than retrieving them from the source afresh each time the external resource is reviewed in a Cached Resource Search, select <strong>Display Cached Resource Properties in Search Results</strong>. This setting is recommended only if the definitive resource records are being regularly updated by scheduled scan, otherwise, the cached data will quickly become obsolete.</p></td></tr><tr><td>Event Management</td><td>enables you to set up integration to receive incoming alerts from network discovery tools or root cause analysis applications for auto-alert logging</td></tr><tr><td>Outbound Actions</td><td>enables you to set up integration to initiate actions into another application, such as another service desk system</td></tr><tr><td>Inbound Actions</td><td>enables you to set up integration to receive and process actions directly logged from other service desk systems</td></tr></tbody></table>

Select **Save**.


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