The CSDM framework provides standard fields and values that you can use to track the life cycle of an asset or a CI. The logical life-cycle value pairs represent the overall life cycle of logical assets and CIs as related to their products.

Life-cycle values for logical CIs, assets, and IBIs

A logical or software asset includes items like applications, services, and licenses.

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 logical CI in the Operational stage might change status over time from In Use to Pending Retirement to End of Support. A different logical CI in the Operational stage might go from In Use status directly to End of Support status without ever having been in the Pending Retirement status.

Note: A CI might be in the Operational stage, but might no longer be supported by the vendor or publisher or third-party. That doesn’t mean, however, that it can be or should be retired.

Logical life cycle process for software: ideation, purchase, design, inventory, deploy, operational, defective, missing, and end of life.
The stage and status values logical items are visible only in tables related to logical items in Asset Management and the CMDB.
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.

Service instance life cycles

Because service instances are logical in nature, they should use the Logical life-cycle value pairs. Service instances follow the same life-cycle guidance as any other logical CI.

See Monitor the health of application services on the Application Services dashboard.

Holistic Life cycle: CMDB Logical Tables (from cmdb_ci)​

Table 1. Logical life cycle tables
CMDB Logical tableTable name
Application Cluster cmdb_ci_application_cluster
Batch Job cmdb_ci_batch_job
Business Application cmdb_ci_business_app
Business Capability cmdb_ci_business_capability
Business Process cmdb_ci_business_process
CIM Profiles cmdb_CIM_profile
Cloud Key Pair cmdb_ci_cloud_keu_pair
Cloud Mgmt Subnet cmdb_ci_subnet
Cloud Resouce Base cmdb ci resource base
Cluster cmdb_ci_cluster
Cluster Node cmdb_cil_cluster_node
Cluster Resource cmdb ci cluster resource
Cluster Virtual IP cmdb_ci_cluster_vip
Configuration File cmdb_ci_config_file
Database cmdb_ci_database
Database Catalog cmdb_ci_db_catalog
Datastore Disk cmdb_ci_vcenter_datastore_disk
Disk Partition cmdb_ci_disk_partition
DNS Name cmdb_ci_dns_name
DRS VM Config cmdb_ci_drs_vm_config
Endpoint cmdb_ci_endpoint
Environment cmdb_ci_environment
Fiber Channel Port cmdb_ci_fc_port
Information Object cmdb_ci_information_object
IP Address cmdb_ci_ip_address
IP Network cmdb_ci_ip_network
IP Phone cmdb_ci_ip_phone
IP Service Instance cmdb_ci_ip_ service
Load Balancer Interface cmdb_ci_Ib_interface
Load Balancer Pool cmdb_ci_Ib_pool
Load Balancer Pool Member cmdb_ci_Ib_pool_member
Load Balancer Service cmdb_ci_Ib_ service
Load Balancer VLAN cmdb_ci_Ib _vlan
Logical Partition cmdb_ci_lpar
Memory Module cmdb_ci_memory_module
Network Appliance Hostname cmdb_ci_net_app_host
Network Hostname cmdb_ci_network_host
Network Traffic cmdb_ci_net_traffic
Operating System Level Virtualization Container cmdb_ci_oslv_container
Operating System Level Virtualization Image cmdb_ci_osiv_image
Operating System Level Virtualization Image TAg cmdb_ci_oslv_image_tag
Operating System Level Virtualization Local Image cmdb_ci _oslv _local_image
Package cmdb_ci_os_packages
Patch cmdb_ci_patches
Port cmdb_ci_port
Print Queue cmdb_ci_print_queue
Qualifier cmdb_ci_qualifier
SAN Connection cmdb_ci_san_connection
SAN Endpoint cmdb_ci_san_endpoint
SAN Fabric cmdb ci san fabric
SAN Zone cmdb_ci_san_zone
SAN Zone Alias cmdb_ci_san_zone_alias
SAN Zone Alias Member cmdb_ci_san_zone_alias_member
SAN Zone Member cmdb_ci_san_zone_member
SAN Zone Set cmdb_ci_san_zone_set
Service cmdb_ci_service
Storage Area Network cmdb_ci_san
Storage Controller cmdb_ci_storage_controller
Storage Export cmdb_ci_storage_export
Storage File Share cmdb_ci_storage_fileshare
Storage HBA cmdb_ci_storage_hba
Storage Pool cmdb_ci_storage_pool
Storage Pool Member cmdb_ci_storage_pool_member
Storage Volume cmdb_ci _storage_volume
Tomcat Connector cmdb_ci_tomcat_connector
UPS Bypass cmdb_ci_ups_bypass
UPS Alarm cmdb_ci_ups_alarm
UPS Input cmdb_ci_ups_input
UPS Output cmdb_ci_ups_output
Veritas Disk Group cmdb_ci_veritas_disk_group
Virtual Machine Object cmdb_ci_vm_object
Virtual Private Cloud cmdb_ci_vpc
Virtual Private Network cmdb_ci_vpn
Websphere Cell cmdb_ci_websphere_cell

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