Rick, Again, having only read some of the docs, it looks like they are moving toward a flatter version of the CMDB, and I'd guess that would continue with each version. Years ago, there was a 3rd party product called Enterprise Service Suite or ESS@Work (John - is that what you were thinking of?) whose CMDB architecture made a lot of sense to me. At a high-level there were basically two forms. One for CIs and one for attributes. The attributes form was primarily two fields, an attribute name and an attribute value (and of course linking fields back to the CI). There wasn't umpteen billion forms for the different classes, with gobs of fields to sift through. "Class" was just one more field on the CI form, and attributes were displayed in a table. It was a fairly simple model, and flexible. Granted - I only ever did a brief eval of that product, so there may have been hidden complications.
Thad On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Rick Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > I'm still trying wrap my head around what they were thinking when they > fundamentally changed the nature of the CDM. It was done "to improve > performance", but the supporting evidence I've seen is as thin and full of > holes as a 20 year old t-shirt. > > Rick > On May 14, 2015 9:38 AM, "Thad Esser" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ** >> Has anyone else taken a look at the new "Association" server object for >> version 9.0? I've only read the docs (haven't played with it yet), but >> this seem like a huge new feature, with possibilities way beyond just >> archiving (which is what the docs say its being used for). >> >> https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/ars9000/Associations+overview >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4v0X2SimKY >> >> Just curious what others thought, or if I'm nerd-ing out too much. >> >> Thad >> _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ > > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
