Clarity Transform User Guide¶
This guide describes the screens of Clarity Transform and how to use them. The sections below follow the Clarity sidebar, whose top-level menus are Governance, Discover, Assess, Rationalise, Plan, Execute, Logging and Settings. Each link opens the page that documents a screen, or a group of related screens.
Governance¶
The governance registers, and the T-Minus runbooks for migration events.
- Overview: outstanding work from the RAID Log, Actions and T-Minus runbook tasks in one list.
- RAID Log: risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies.
- Actions
- Project Directory
- Go/No-Go: record whether each migration event goes ahead.
- Lessons Learned
- T-Minus Runbook Templates, T-Minus Runbook Action Library and T-Minus Runbooks: under Governance → T-Minus Runbook Management.
Discover¶
Bring records into the CMDB, review them and check their quality.
Integrations: each integration is a card on Discover → Integrations. Start with Integrations, or go straight to one of them, for example:
- VMware vSphere
- Nutanix AHV
- Nutanix Collector
- RVTools
- SQL Server
- Network Scan
- NetFlow
- CSV Import
- CSV Export
CMDB: one screen, Discover → CMDB, with a card for each CI type. Start with CMDB, or see a CI type:
Application Inference: screens under Discover → Application Inference that propose applications and relationships from discovery evidence, for example Candidate Applications, Device Suggestions and Suggested App-to-App.
Data Analysis: read-only dashboards under Discover → Data Analysis.
- Application Discovery
- Infrastructure Discovery
- Infrastructure Services
- Container Estate
- Discovery Sources
Data Quality: completeness and correctness dashboards under Discover → Data Quality.
Application Interviews and Application Mapping:
- Application Interviews: Interview Questions, New Interview and All Interviews.
- Application Mapping: a graph of services and their relationships.
See the end-to-end Infrastructure Discovery workflow.
Assess¶
Rationalise¶
- Rationalise: a migration disposition (7 Rs) for each application. Rationalise is a top-level menu item with no children.
Plan¶
- Planning Dashboard
- Migration Readiness, Container Readiness and Capacity Planning: under Plan → Readiness.
- Network Mappings: under Plan → Source To Target.
- Events: migration events, with a Start Date and an End Date.
- Move Groups: batches of assets planned to migrate together, each linked to an event by its Event Name.
- Business Engagement: approval emails, read receipts and meeting bookings per application owner.
See the end-to-end Migration Planning workflow.
Execute¶
- Script Repository, Task Groups and Task Library: under Execute → Pre-Migration Setup.
- Migration Jobs and Runbooks: under Execute → Migration Operations.
- Event Command Center: under Execute → Monitoring & Reporting.
- Application Migrations and Device Migrations: under Execute → Monitoring & Reporting → Migration Tracking.
Logging¶
- Event Log
- Change Log
- Activity Log
- Automation Script Log
Settings¶
- Dropdown Lists and Field Validations, Custom Fields, Clarity Tags and Tag Extraction: under Settings → Field Management.
- Credentials and User Roles: under Settings → Identity & Access Management.
- SMTP Configuration, Teams Notifications, Email Templates and Email Recipient Fields: under Settings → Communications.
- Background Jobs, System Settings and Licenses: under Settings → System.
- System Health: the health checks for Clarity itself. Open it from the health icon in the header.
Guides by role¶
- Project Manager: the screens a project manager or migration lead uses across a migration.