Dynamic CI Groups and large groups of CIs

Alan Prochaska
Tera Expert

Wednesday

Dynamic CI Groups appear to be a powerful tool.  We want to set up DCIGs to connect all our infrastructure to the appropriate Technical Service Offering.  DCIGs have a limit of 10K records.  We have 150K printers and we want to get them associated with offerings and support groups.

 

Do we have to set up 15 DCIGs to cover the 150K CIs?

Similarly do we have to set up 5 DCIGs to cover 50K virtual servers?

 

Any guidance on how to break up large groups of CIs?

 

After assigning the CIs to a DCIG and relating that to a technical offering, will CMDB Query Builder see relationships from the printer to the offering and return them in a result?

 

Thanks for any help.

Alan Prochaska

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Alan Prochaska
Tera Expert
In response to Mathew Hillyard

Thursday

HI Mat,

THANK YOU for the response with all the information.  It may take a bit to absorb it all.  Good to know the DCIG-CI relationships are out there, just in their own separate table.  Seems similar to Software and Software Packages.

 

So it probably will be possible to trace from infra CI back to offering and service, but it will be from multiple queries.  I'll forward this to our developer so she can begin assimilating it.

 

I get the message re 10K groups:  It's a limit.  Take it seriously and break up your environment to chunks that size or smaller.  It may seem a pain, but you'll be glad for it down the line.

 

Thank you to you and Barry for the direction.  It gets us going.  I may be back later, but I think I'm good for now.

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