Create dependent relationship rules
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- UpdatedJan 30, 2025
- 4 minutes to read
- Yokohama
- Configuration Management
Create hosting and containment rules (dependent relationship rules) for CI classes to help with correctly identifying dependent CIs during the business discovery process and service mapping. Discovery calls the identification API that applies dependent relationship rules.
You can create a basic hosting or containment rule in the CI Class Manager. Or, use the Metadata Editor to create groups of hosting and containment rules, and inbound or outbound endpoints in containment rules. The CI Class Manager and the Metadata Editor are synchronized, and you can use each of those tools to display and edit a dependent rule.
Create a dependent relationship rule for a CMDB class
Use the CI Class Manager to create a basic dependent relationship rule (hosting or containment relationship rule) for a CMDB class.
Before you begin
Role required: itil has read access, itil_admin (on top of itil) has full access.
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For more information about child and parent classes, see Table extension and classes.
Create or edit a collection of containment rules
Create containment rule for CIs to help with correctly identifying dependent CIs during the business discovery process and service mapping. Discovery calls the identification API that applies dependent relationship rules.
Before you begin
About this task
To create a containment rules group for a new CI type, you need to first add the CI Type1 of the relationship. To add a child containment rule for a CI type that exists, you need to select that CI type, and define the second portion of the relationship rule which is the relationship type and CI Type2.
To each rule within a containment rules group you can add inbound or outbound endpoints, which are noted by blue up and down arrows. After adding an endpoint, you can not add a containment rule in that branch of the containment rules hierarchy.
Procedure
Create or edit a collection of hosting rules
Create hosting rule for CIs to assist in correctly identifying dependent CIs during the business discovery process and service mapping. Discovery calls the identification API that applies dependent relationship rules.
Before you begin
A hosting rule implicitly contains two rules, which are the reversal of each other. When you create the rule '<CI Type1> <relationship type> <CI Type2>', the rule '<CI Type2> <reversed relationship type> <CI Type1>' is automatically added.
Role required: admin
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