Which one do I use? IP Switch or Switch or Netgear or does it matter?

bnorton
Kilo Explorer

‎04-12-2019 11:08 AM

New to SNOW. In the process of adding our Network Gear (Layer 3 switches, routers, firewall appliances) to the CMDB and seems to be no end of choices of the CI Classes these items can be added to. While adding Fortigate firewall appliances I noticed that there were IP Firewalls and Firewalls, IP Switches and Switches and of course Network Gear. Does it really matter where I put our network gear as long as we are consistent with it? Someone else added gear to the CMDB and just put it in the Network Gear class 

Any clarification on this would be very much appreciated.

 

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sachin_namjoshi
Kilo Patron
Kilo Patron

‎04-12-2019 11:28 AM

CMDB CI classes are provided for guidance.

It's up to your company policy to determine which classes to use.

But, please keep in mind that choosing right class will help you to determine correct CI relationships.

 

Use below to allow relationships between different classes.

 

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Regards,

Sachin

 

 

Regards,

Sachin

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bnorton
Kilo Explorer
In response to sachin_namjoshi

‎04-12-2019 11:33 AM

Hi Sachin - Thank you for the input. I will have a look at the suggested relationships.

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Flavio9
Tera Contributor

‎04-01-2022 06:21 AM

Not sure you check that but in the link below you can find the tables that discovery would populate in this case so you might use the same class
https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/paris-it-operations-management/page/product/discovery/reference/r_DataCollDiscoNWRouteAndSwitch.html 

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