Re: Virtual System Class removed in 7.5 (was Accounting for Virtual Servers in the CMDB)

2009-01-21 Thread Peter Romain
, it also makes the new structure a bit less usable in a way. -Guillaume Rheault -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of SCOTT PHILBEN Sent: Fri 01/16/09 11:02 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Accounting for Virtual Servers in the CMDB

Re: Accounting for Virtual Servers in the CMDB

2009-01-20 Thread Guillaume Rheault
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Accounting for Virtual Servers in the CMDB RE: Accounting for Virtual Servers in the CMDBI agree with Guillaume's approach on storing both the physical and virtual servers in the same place. It makes searching/finding configuration items a lot easier for someone who

Virtual System Class removed in 7.5 (was Accounting for Virtual Servers in the CMDB)

2009-01-20 Thread Guillaume Rheault
makes the new structure a bit less usable in a way. -Guillaume Rheault -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of SCOTT PHILBEN Sent: Fri 01/16/09 11:02 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Accounting for Virtual Servers in the CMDB Is anyone

Re: Accounting for Virtual Servers in the CMDB

2009-01-19 Thread Guillaume Rheault
less usable in a way. -Guillaume Rheault -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of SCOTT PHILBEN Sent: Fri 01/16/09 11:02 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Accounting for Virtual Servers in the CMDB Is anyone using the CMDB (2.1 patch 004

Re: Accounting for Virtual Servers in the CMDB

2009-01-19 Thread Terry Bootsma
AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Accounting for Virtual Servers in the CMDB ** We have the virtual servers in the computer system class, just like physical servers. To identify whether it is a physical server or a virtual server, we use the product name and the manufacturer

Accounting for Virtual Servers in the CMDB

2009-01-16 Thread SCOTT PHILBEN
Is anyone using the CMDB (2.1 patch 004) and Asset application (7.0.3 patch 008) to account for virtual servers? Does anyone have a white paper with some best practices that I could steal? There seems to be classes that are related to Virtual servers (System--Virtual System for example) but how

Re: Accounting for Virtual Servers in the CMDB

2009-01-16 Thread Charles Baldi
If you install the help files for CMDB, they include detailed information on the data model, including the purpose of each class and attribute. This is very helpful when trying to map CI types to existing classes. Regards, Chuck Baldi On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM, SCOTT PHILBEN