Sercice offering relationship with all elements in one class

[Elisa Mena]

Hi team,

I'd like to know if there is a way of creating a link between a service offering and all elements in one class. For example, virtualization offering linked to all virtual machine instances. In a way that when a new Virtual machine is added, that dependency with the offering is automatically created.

I'd like to avoid Dynamic ci group as it doesn't seem to be bi-directional.

Thank you

[Mathew Hillyard]

@Elisa Mena it depends on what you want to use this for.

If it is to relate objects together in the CMDB, the recommended way to link this is via a Dynamic CI Group. Could you elaborate on what "I'd like to avoid Dynamic ci group as it doesn't seem to be bi-directional" means? Are you referring to CI Relationships? If so then the source for finding the relationships is the Service Configuration Item Association [svc_ci_assoc] table - and if you are using Application Services, all the Application Service to CI Relationships will be here too. Note that this table does not store hierarchy information - it merely contains records that reference a Service (App Service or DCG) and a CI. This table effectively "flattens" the CMDB hierarchy and is the foundation for impacted service calculation in CSDM.