BMC Helix Discovery Migration Service

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This Service migrates customer’s from BMC Helix On Premise Discovery to BMC Helix Discovery.

What you get:

BMC Helix will perform the following in two environments (Three days allotted for 2nd environment)

Analyze and Design

  • Conduct a workshop to analyze the existing BMC Helix On Premise Discovery implementation and provide overview of the migration process
  • Prepare Migration Design Document with tasks required to support the migration to BMC Helix Discovery
  • Review findings and overview of the migration plan with Customer stakeholders

Prepare for Migration

  • Install and configure up to three BMC Helix On Premise Discovery Outposts (“Outposts”)
  • Migrate groups, users, and permissions from BMC Helix On Premise Discovery to BMC Helix Single Sign-On and BMC Helix Discovery

Migrate

  • Migrate up to 10 application models and convert to Blueprints* where possible 
  • Migrate credentials using migration tools
  • Re-configure up to 25 scheduled discovery runs
  • Configure integration to one of either BMC Helix CMDB or ServiceNow® CMDB (if integration already exists for BMC Helix On Premise Discovery)

Validate and Deliver

  • Prepare Construction Document
  • Prepare Test Strategy and System Test Plan
  • Assist Customer with functional testing
  • Provide up to three days of assistance with deployment to configuring Customer’s second environment

Customer will be responsible for:

  • Provisioning Outposts infrastructure as required
  • Providing access to:
    • BMC Helix On Premise Discovery administrators
    • Subject matter experts
    • Available documentation on the current BMC Helix On Premise Discovery environment
  • Providing access and privileges to:
    • Existing BMC Helix On Premise Discovery appliance
    • Servers, applications, and systems to be discovered (if required)
    • Systems to be integrated
    • BMC Helix environment
  • Conducting functional testing, including creating functional test plan
  • Deploying configurations to additional BMC Helix Discovery environments

BMC Helix will provide this service with one of the approaches below:

Migration Service & OptionsStandard Delivery CreditsCountry Specific Credits
BMC Helix Discovery Migration Service
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50

Deliverables: Using BMC Helix standard methodology and templates, the following Deliverables are in scope for this project and will be delivered:

  • Project Schedule
  • Project Status Report
  • Migration Design Document
  • Construction Document
  • Test Strategy and System Test Plan

Completion Criteria: BMC Helix will have completed these Consulting Services when the in-scope Consulting Services have been completed and the Deliverables have been delivered to the Customer Project Manager.

Pre-requisites:

  • For non-SaaS migrations, the BMC Helix platform must already be implemented
  • Firewall ports must be open between BMC Helix Discovery environment and Outposts and between Outposts and Customer’s network

Additional information:

  • Estimated Duration: 5 weeks
  • In-scope Products: BMC Helix Discovery
  • Service Type: Activate
  • Owner: Helix
  • Success Service Code: DISC_MIGR_004_OFFSHORE DISC_MIGR_004_ONSHORE
  • Date Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Definitions:

  • Country-Specific Staffing: Upon Customer’s request and BMC Helix resource availability, BMC Helix will deviate from BMC Helix Standard Delivery model. BMC Helix will work with Customer to understand and address their country-specific staffing requirements. The staffing choice from which country a BMC Helix resource comes from will be mutually agreed to by BMC Helix and Customer.
  • Standard Delivery: A mix of BMC Helix consultants and project managers sourced from various BMC Helix locations.
  • Blueprints are templates, a single blueprint can describe one or multiple business services based on the same technical structure. (For example, a service “MS Exchange”, deployed in different environments such as DEV/QA/PRE-PROD/PROD, can be described with one blueprint template.)

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