Re: Discovery and CMDB

2010-02-03 Thread Nicky Madjarov
zandi Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 4:10 PM Subject: Re: Discovery and CMDB ** Maybe I am getting confused with the "pingable" statement. CMDB is not pinging anything, Configuration Discovery does

Re: Discovery and CMDB

2010-02-03 Thread patrick zandi
Maybe I am getting confused with the "pingable" statement. CMDB is not pinging anything, Configuration Discovery does not ping anything Foundation discovery will ping something, but I have never seen an asset in the down status due to the FD not reaching a host that it previously created a CI for.

Re: Discovery and CMDB

2010-02-03 Thread Kathy Morris
Ok - then when the status is "Down" - I read in the BMC documentation is defined as "the CI is down, but not yet in maintenance." "Down" is not a location that describes where the asset is at. It's a little confusing. So the user is marking any server that is not pingable as down. But t

Re: Discovery and CMDB

2010-02-02 Thread patrick zandi
the cmdb assets are based on where they are at, not whether they are up? monitoring is one side (Patrol, Ca-unicenter, Whatever) up / down and overall status uptime etc. Asset is different: ordered, recieved, being assembled, deployed, in-repair, down, endof life, transferred, delete, in inventor

Discovery and CMDB

2010-02-02 Thread Koyb P. Liabt
If a server was discovered and marked as "deployed" and then later is not pingable - what status would you give this server? ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@ver