If you are just updating and do not wish the OOB filters to kick off the Base Element is safe enough to import to from AIE. I recently imported around 400k assets from a 5.5 system into CMDB 7.6p1 and the only way that I could pull it off in a timely manner was to run them into BE. I imported them into the BMC.SANDBOX dataset and let the OOB reconciliation jobs pull them into BMC.ASSET. Worked great.
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Roger Justice Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 5:35 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: AIE Mapping Against Base Element ** The question is how do you not know what class it is in. Also you can do a staging form for this that will do a query against the Base Element to get the class id and then do the push to the right class. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Begosh <kbeg...@gmail.com> To: arslist <arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> Sent: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 6:27 pm Subject: Re: AIE Mapping Against Base Element ** What if you do not know what class the data is in. For instance if you where given a file of financial data for something like that with Asset ID's and that is it. How would you update the classes then, have a staging form that queries and brings in the class and then have workflow that pushes to that class? On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Roger Justice <rjust2...@aol.com> wrote: ** Best Practice is to only use the Join forms, so no do not do a mapping against Base Element. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Begosh <kbeg...@gmail.com> To: arslist <arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> Sent: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 6:16 pm Subject: Re: AIE Mapping Against Base Element ** So you are saying we should never create a AIE mapping against base element? On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Roger Justice <rjust2...@aol.com> wrote: ** All of the workflow to properly create CMDB entries are on the join forms so you should never try to either create or modify the base element form. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Begosh <kbeg...@gmail.com> To: arslist <arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> Sent: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 5:46 pm Subject: AIE Mapping Against Base Element ** List, Has anyone built a AIE mapping against BMC_BaseElement. I have a mapping built against Computer System and I want to use it for a number of other classes. Instead of building it a bunch of times I was thinking lean and trying to create it once against base element. I have a Primary Key of Lets say Asset ID and two data mapping fields and that is it. I am not creating records only updating. When I look at the logs it looks as if AIE cannot find the file and it tries to create it. The ARSystem count is 0 when it should be 1. This same mapping runs against the computer system class and works fine. Any ideas, is there a step with Base Element I am missing. I have built workflow against Base Element that modified and created records and had no problems. I can also build a staging form that can handle this but I wanted to have it handled in AIE mapping since I am only updated a field or two and that is it. CMDB 7.6 ARS 7.5 -- Kevin Begosh _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com <http://www.wwrug.com/> ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com <http://www.wwrug.com/> ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ -- Kevin Begosh _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com <http://www.wwrug.com/> ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com <http://www.wwrug.com/> ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ -- Kevin Begosh _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com <http://www.wwrug.com/> ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
