The Autoaction Database Manager (ADBM) handles CP-AMS databases, SMART AMS databases, and SP-AMS databases. ADBM consists of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that allows you to organize files that are necessary to build and verify databases into a workspace and projects.
ADBM allows you to build three types of autoaction database files: SP-AMS (.asp), CP‑AMS (.acp), and SMART AMS (.ams). It provides a central repository (workspace) to organize all of your source files.
After creating autoaction database files with ADBM, you need to place the resulting .acp and .ams files into folder installation-data-folder\os2200-ams on the Operations Sentinel server so they can be activated by CP-AMS. To make an SP-AMS database available for activation, place the .asp file into folder installation-data-folder\sp-ams.
ADBM allows you to easily verify, distribute, and dump a database from a single location. Using its distribute function, ADBM automatically places autoaction databases in the correct folder on an Operations Sentinel server.
ADBM also allows you to restore, delete, retrieve, and view SMART AMS, CP-AMS, and SP-AMS databases on Operations Sentinel servers.
Note: Support for SMART AMS databases is deprecated. At some point in the future support for SMART AMS databases will be removed from the Autoaction Database Utilities. As a result the default database type in the Autoaction Database Manager is no longer SMART AMS but is CP-AMS. The BADB, DADB, and VADB utilities continue to operate as they did in the past.
Database Maintenance
The Database Maintenance features apply to Operations Sentinel servers. There are four Database Maintenance commands: RESTORE, DELETE, RETRIEVE, and VIEW.
Starting ADBM
Follow these steps to start ADBM.
From the Programs section of the Windows Start menu, select Operations Sentinel x.y.z.
Select Automation Tools.
Select Autoaction Database Manager.
See the Help menu of ADBM for information on creating and using workspaces and projects.