About Integration Composer
Integration Composer (formerly Maximo® Fusion) is separately installed software that is required by the integration adapter. To use the integration adapter, first you have to install and understand the basics about Integration Composer.
Integration Composer is
an integration tool that lets you
transform and import inventory data about deployed hardware and software.
The data is imported from a discovery or system management tool database
into the Maximo database
tables for deployed assets. With Integration Composer,
an enterprise can aggregate data collected by external discovery tools
and integrate it into the Maximo database,
creating a central repository for enterprise IT asset management,
reporting, and decision support. The Maximo database
is the repository used by Control Desk. Integration Composer is
the only supported integration tool for importing or updating deployed
assets.
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 database. The
import or export of data into or out of other tables within the Maximo database
is accomplished using a different tool, the integration framework.
The sections that follow describe the Integration Composer components and file structure.