Definiton which reflects the relationship types purpose.

[JesperGuldfeldt]

Hello everybody - I've been given the task to define what relations between CI's means.

Thefore I was wondering if anybody have formulated definitions, which reflects the relationship types purpose.
For example:

Depends On::Used By

Relationship type

Describes an operational dependency where a parent CI needs a child CI to function; (e.g. a change or incident on a child CI may impact the function of its parent).

I've tried searching for something like this, but haven't been lucky so far. 😊

[Mark Manders]

First hit on Docs: https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/vancouver-servicenow-platform/page/product/configuration-manageme...

[HS4 · Accepted solution]

Hi Jesper,

I have found the following definitions for some commonly used relationship types:

Parent	Child	Definition
Connects to	Connected by	Network Connections between elements that are talking to each other. Examples: Workstation to switch, switch to switch, kubernetes workload to service.
Contains	Contained by	Typically a containment relationship (CI to contained CI). The child CI typically has a single parent CI with this relationship type. Examples: Tomcat to Tomcat WAR, VMware Datacenter contains Network.
Depends on	Used by	Parent CI depends on child CI. Meaning that problem/change in the child CI may impact the parent CI.
Hosted on	Hosts	Hosting relationship between an element and its host. Examples: Cloud resource to logical data center, k8s workload to k8s cluster.
Manages	Managed by	Typically used where one CI manages one or more other CIs. Example: vCenter manages vCenter Datacenter.
Members	Member of	Typically used with clusters where a cluster node is a member of a cluster. Example: ESXi Server is a member of vCenter Cluster.
Owns	Owned by	Usually a containment relationship (CI to owned CI). The child CI typically has a single parent with this relationship type.
Runs on	Runs	Typically between a CI that represents a software application, to the hosting hardware/VM. Example: Tomcat 'Runs on' Linux server.

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Thanks,