Use the Admin Center in Digital Portfolio Management
The Admin Center in Digital Portfolio Management (DPM) provides administrators a guided walk-through to set up and configure the DPM Workspace for the organization. The provided information and configuration prompts enable visibility into the end-to-end service and application life-cycle.
With a DPM admin role [sn_dpm.dpm_admin], access the DPM
Admin Center to set up and configure the DPM experience for the organization. The Admin Center provides easy to follow setup steps and includes tooltips and links to resources, plugins, and configuration tables.
Note:
An administrator [admin] must install plugins.
Access the DPM Admin Center
To access the DPM
Admin Center, you must have the DPM Admin role [sn_dpm.dpm_admin].
Note:
Demo data users that come with the base system have been assigned the Admin role [sn_dpm.dpm_admin]. You can impersonate one of the demo data users to
test the Admin Center.
Navigate to .
The Admin Center has two tabs: Overview and Settings.
Overview tab
The Overview tab enables you to do the following:
- Follow the guided setup to configure services with offerings, business applications, and application services.
- Configure key performance indicator (KPI) groups.
- Explore the settings.
- Create and review service portfolios.
- Create and review business application portfolios.
- Access helpful resources for more information.
Navigate the configuration steps
- Select Configure on a solution card from the Overview tab.
- Follow the guided walk-though. Each step has its own prompts, instructions, and conditions to set up your data in the DPM Workspace.Note:When you see the information icon (
) next to a step heading, select it to view more information about that step.
Table 1. DPM Admin Center configuration steps for solutions Services with offerings Business applications Application services - Identify solutions
- Identify portfolios
- Assess planning items
- Assess build metrics
- Map KPI groups
- Next steps
- Identify solutions
- Identify portfolios
- Assess planning items
- Assess build metrics
- Map KPI groups
- Assess risk metrics
- Next steps
- Identify solutions
- Identify portfolios
- Map KPI groups
- Assess risk metrics
- Next steps
- Navigate through the setup steps in one of two ways.
- Select the step number and title to perform the configuration for that step.
A completed step shows a check mark instead of a number.
- Select Next to move to the next step and Back to return to the previous step.
- Select the step number and title to perform the configuration for that step.
You can navigate to any step at any time to update the configuration settings.
Important:
If you see an empty screen while configuring, you most likely don't have access for that action. To resolve access issues, contact your administrator.
Settings tab
The Settings tab enables you to do the following for solutions (services, service offerings, business applications, and application services):
- Configure the following for each solution page.
- Personal portfolio solution cards
- Header fields
- Plan fields
- Build fields
- Run fields
- Risk fields
- Portfolio properties
- General information fields on the Info tab
- KPI group properties
- DevOps properties
- Show or hide the Plan, Build, Run and Info tabs.
- Show or hide fields from each of the main tabs.
- Access resources for additional help.
Troubleshoot tab
The Troubleshoot tab enables you to recalculate availability results and indicators for service offerings.
- Select the services and offerings that you'd like to recalculate availability.
- Set the start and end dates for the recalculation period.
- Select Recalculate availability to generate the results.