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What are "Containment rules" and "Hosting Rules" in CMDB

shank1
Tera Expert

Hi,

What are  "Containment rules" and "Hosting Rules" in CMDB. 

In reality, will there be a need to create such rules. If so, what are the use cases.

Thanks,

Shanks

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BozhidarNizamov
Tera Contributor

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/vancouver-servicenow-platform/page/product/configuration-manageme...

 

The article regarding those two types of rules. 

 

"For example, you can have a hosting rule that specifies that the CI type ‘Application’ ‘Runs On::Runs’, the CI type ‘Hardware’." - 

"For example, you might have a containment rule specifying that the CI type ‘Tomcat’ ‘Contains::Contained By' CI type ‘WAR File’."