HOPEX IT Portfolio Management > Drawing up a Technology Inventory > Importing Technologies from BDNA > Updating BDNA Objects Imported into HOPEX
Updating BDNA Objects Imported into HOPEX
At any time you can update information available on software technologies and vendors imported into HOPEX.
To do so:
1. Click the Tools > BDNA navigation pane.
2. In the edit area click BDNA Vendors or BDNA Technologies, depending on the objects you want to update.
3. In the edit area, click the Update button.
*If necessary, click to display the hidden commands.
You can also define an automatic update.
Technology Automatic Updating and Alerts
Automatic update checks, at a given frequency, if the properties of software technologies imported into HOPEX have changed in the BDNA repository and updates the corresponding technologies in HOPEX.
Defining Update Frequency
To activate an automatic update, you must create a trigger in the administration tool which implements the BDNA Automatic Update macro.
Once the trigger is created, you can plan the update in ITPM.
To create a trigger:
1. Open the Administration module.
2. Open the environment.
3. Expand the repository folder concerned.
4. Right-click Scheduler and select Manage Triggers.
5. Click the Triggers Definitions tab.
6. Click the New button to create a trigger definition.
7. In the wizard, create a job definition that implements the macro "BDNA Automatic Update Job Implementation".
8. Complete the planning.
9. Click Finish.
To define automatic update on technologies:
1. Connect to ITPM as a Functional Administrator.
2. Click the navigation menu, then Administration.
3. Select the Scheduling Management navigation pane.
4. In the edit window, click BDNA Automatic Update.
You can set the alert:
• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
Subscribing to Alerts
A user can be notified of updates made on the technologies he is in charge of.
To subscribe to an alert:
1. In the edit window, display the list of technologies.
2. Select the technology concerned and click the Follow button.
*For more details on alerts, see Managing Your Alerts on Object Modification.
Support Alert Report
A Support Alert MetaAtribute available on each technology compares the technology life cycle (imported from BDNA or defined manually) with its life cycle in the organization.
*For more information on technology life, see Defining Technology Life.
A report uses the Support Alert MetaAttribute to analyze technologies in the HOPEX repository and displays all possible conflicts between the use of these technologies in the organization and their official life cycles.