Yup, if you want to stick with the out-of-the-box DSL, Chris is right -
you'll be stuck with the
Software - Application - Third Party - Product Name
categories - my question is - what good does this do for reporting
purposes? If almost everything sits in that one CTI (I think there is one
If you start filtering out software
it is no longer definitive.
Games software would exist for competitive analysis
in games producing companies, so yes, for say 99.999% of
sites it may be of no importance, but there it is.
Almost all software is arguable one way or another for a specific site.
Actually, I think it is very much not intended to be all software
known to mankind.
Rather, from just a few quick pokes around google there are abundant
statements like the following:
The practice of effective Software Control Distribution involves the
creation of a Definitive Software
You got it. ITIL is the driving force to set the parameters of the DSL.
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Actually, I think it is very
I agree with you. It seems that with ITSM 7 and the DSL, BMC has created a
hybrid 'Product Dictionary' and DSL. The DSL should only contain the
software that is actually used in the enterprise while the 'Product
Dictionary' is a list of normalized values that can be used by discovery
tools.
A warning that I have posted before:
When you install a DSL update/patch, it will overwrite the data in
CFG_GeographyCountry, at least it did with DSL7DataPatch1518_v109_05_0_1.zip
Out of the box, many countries, especially in the Middle East are disabled
in ITSM 7. I had enabled all the
Sorry for the multiple posts, but another thing you may want to consider,
is that when you install the BMC supplied DSL it also creates over 2,300
sites in you site table and almost as many companies of type 'Manufacturer'
making your foundation data baloon.
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