I'm not sure it can be thought of in such a simple manner. The problem is that what you consider the parent or the child does not necessarily correspond to the direction of the relationship depending on what type of relationship you're talking about. For example, if Item A depends on Item B, your relationship arrow goes from Item A to Item B, but can you say that one is the parent or child in this relationship? In the case of applications on servers in the CMDB, BMC uses a HostedSystemComponent relationship. (I don't'necessarily agree with this approach, but that's the way it is...) In that case, the arrow goes from the server to the application. Conceptually, the application could probably be thought of as the child, but the arrow goes the other way (you can also debate which way the arrows ought to go to indicate which is the parent or the child, further muddying the waters).
I would say to not even try to think of things in terms of parent-child. Rather, just figure out which way the arrows should go. In this case, they go from the server to the application. What this means in concrete terms is that, when you create a HostedSystemComponent for this, the Source is the server, and the Destination is the application. Does that make sense at all? Lyle From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Koyb P. Liabt Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:35 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Parent _ Child Relationship Server Appliction ** Hi, We are having confusion in our organization. Relationships - If let's say Solaris Applications sit on the UNIX server. Is the Solaris Application a child of the Unix server. Or is the Unix server a child of the Solaris Application. We are just trying to understand what is the relationship of the applications. _Platinum Sponsor: rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
