Caveat: yes, I know how to set/edit Dataset precedence in the Reconciliation tool.
My question is a bit more general: is there a published list of what attributes are compared during reconciliation? Client has multiple source data sets. Sometimes a subset of records in one of the data sets is not as complete as desired (long story, don't go there). They will then run a manual CSV of those records and import them into a new dataset and set it higher precedence than the original so that matches go into Asset and over-write the less-complete set's records. The problem is that they use spoon and leave a lot of fields default, resulting in items like Type or Item not exactly matching. You know what happens then...instead of over-writing the Asset record, a SECOND record is created in Asset. No bueno. So the customer came back with the question "ok, so where is the list of all the attributes that are compared so I can ensure we have exact matches or we are filling in the blanks?" Short of manually setting precendence rules for each attribute, I don't have the answer myself. Anybody got a handy "default" list for BMC.Core or BMC.ComputerSystem attributes compared? I'm sure I"m overlooking something simple...blame it on the flu...and thanks in advance. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
