The CSDM framework provides standard fields and values that you can use to track the life cycle of an asset or a CI. The location life-cycle value pairs represent the overall life cycle of a location within common data.

Life-cycle values for location

A life-cycle value pair is the combination life cycle stage and life cycle stage status values for a CI, asset, or IBI over the life cycle of a product instance. For example, a location CI in the Operational stage might change status over time from In Use to Pending Retirement. A different location CI in the Operational stage might go from the Available status directly to Pending Retirement status without ever having been in the In Use status.


Location life cycle process: pipeline, operational, and end of life.
The stage and status values for locations are visible only in the common data locations table.
Note: The [life_cycle_control] table uses the type of CI (hardware, document, logical and so on) to determine which life cycle stage status values are available for each life cycle stage.

For additional information on how you can benefit from implementing life-cycle value pairs for CMDB entities, see the 'Map existing status values to CSDM life-cycle value pairs' section in the 'Foundation domain' topic.

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