How to create relations between application services based on Dynamic CI Groups

[Amar_Be]

Hi,

I need to create a dependency relation between 2 application services.  But from the Application Services creation wizard, it is not possible to select application services based on Dynamic CI Groups as parent of the current service.

The only solution I've found is to create manually the relations in the cmdb_rel_ci and svc_ci_assoc forms.

Is there a cleaner way of doing it? And does someone have an explanation about this limitation?

I'm in the use case where I've  to represent the dependency of the "windows servers" technical service on the "network" technical service. I think it's not a so uncommon case.

[VaranAwesomenow]

If the goal is to identify which servers are in which network, IP address attribute can be used for this purpose, and IP ranges can be associated to network, that should help you report which servers are in which network.

Dynamic CI group is primarily meant for grouping hardware devices while application service represents logical group of CIs that are part of an installed application stack via service mapping, so while they are similar they are not same.