Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes

2009-03-20 Thread Louise Van Hine
t Subject: Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 2:32 PM ** BMC FD/TD Discovery creates an IP Endpoint class for the IP and a LAN Endpoint CI for the MAC address and relates these together (dependency where the MAC is the parent if I reme

Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes

2009-03-20 Thread Guillaume Rheault
That's right, you got to create a relationship -Guillaume -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Louise Van Hine Sent: Fri 03/20/09 1:49 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes   So when the IP addresse

Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes

2009-03-20 Thread P Romain ARSlist
pull the best practice card then I'd go with the above. _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Louise Van Hine Sent: 20 March 2009 17:49 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes ** So whe

Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes

2009-03-20 Thread Louise Van Hine
of concept system in any case, so we can try different things to see what works.   --- On Fri, 3/20/09, Guillaume Rheault wrote: From: Guillaume Rheault Subject: Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 11:14 AM ** You can also use the LA

Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes

2009-03-20 Thread Guillaume Rheault
can store multiple virtual IPs. -Guillaume -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Lyle Taylor Sent: Thu 03/19/09 6:40 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes I believe the IP Endpoint class is intended to

Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes

2009-03-19 Thread Lyle Taylor
I believe the IP Endpoint class is intended to document things like IP addresses. Adding an attribute for IP address is probably not a good solution, unless you know that the device will only have one (or some maximum number of) IP address(es). As noted in someone else's reply, there is a fiel

Re: IP Devices and CMDB 2.1 Classes

2009-03-19 Thread P Romain ARSlist
Hi Louise, At one customer I added an IP attribute to computer system because they also weren't interested in doing anything with this data except store it. At other customers we've used the IP Endpoint class primarily because that's where BMC Discovery puts this data. Different IPs were di