Hi Listers - Looking at the skinnied-down CDM, how would you track the following:
Server w/ two network cards that each have two specific IP addresses (for failover, for example) associated with them. Server goes into ComputerSystem class, no problem. >From there, I could: 1) Put the Network card into Card class. If I do, how to I say "this IP Address is associated with this card"? Do I create an IP Endpoint CI to track the IP Address, then relate that to the Computer, thus 'kind of' relating this to the NIC card? 2) Do I create a CI in the IP Endpoint class with a CTI of something like "Hardware/Component/NIC" and ignore the Card class? That way I could directly relate the NIC Card and its associated IP Address(es) to the ComputerSystem w/ both a Component & a Dependency relationship. But this ignores the fact that the actual device that delivers the Access Point is a card in the large percentage of cases... 3) Insert other great ideas here.... Has anyone else modeled their computer-network data in CMDB 2.0? If so, what did you do? Another consideration is ease of reporting, which is rather difficult to say the least. Lastly, the CDM has this blurb in the BMC_HostedAccessPoint relationship class definition: "Heuristic: If the implementation of the AccessPoint is modeled, it must be implemented by a Device or SoftwareFeature that is part of the System hosting the ServiceAccessPoint." This may be the key to my question, I just can't figure out what it means~~~~. Please, weigh in on this topic! Thanks, Cindy _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
