I know that best practicies (as per the CSDM implementation stages document) is not to populate this table with manual CI's but I have inherited a CMDB where this has been done, and done a lot. There are 30,326 total CI's in this table, and 16,224 of them were manually created. They also manually created "runs on" relationships with host CI's as well, which further complicates things. I think what they were trying to do is actually replicate the cmdb_ci_spkg table (which contains the "installed on" relationships with softwares) that is currently not populated due to SAM being used.
Has anyone dealt with a similar issue, and what did you end up doing to move forward with CMDB maturation? Just looking for some words of wisdom from people who have encountered similar issues.
