question Re: CI Relationships now showing up in CMDB forum

CI Relationships now showing up

aditimittal — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:07:52 GMT

I added the cmdb_ci_ip_address class to my application which is a dependent class. In my IntegrationHub ETL, in the "Add Relationships" step, I added an Owns:Owned By relationship between cmdb_ci_zos_server class and cmdb_ci_ip_address class. My ingestion of the IP Address data was successful and the relationships also showed up in the cmdb_rel_ci table.

I wanted to show these relationships in the CI information so I made a view and added the "CI Relations(Formatter)" in the view, but these relationships aren't showing there and neither are they showing up when I open the CI in the CMDB workspace.

If anyone knows how to resolve this, please let me know, thanks!

Re: CI Relationships now showing up

vaishali231 — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:50:02 GMT

Hey @aditimittal
Since the relationship records are getting created successfully in cmdb_rel_ci, the IntegrationHub ETL mapping and the Add Relationships step appear to be working correctly.
The issue is most likely related to how cmdb_ci_ip_address is handled/displayed. cmdb_ci_ip_address is a dependent CI class, and dependent CI relationships may not always appear in the standard CI Relations formatter or CMDB Workspace relationship view, even though the relationship exists in cmdb_rel_ci.

I would suggest checking the following:

Confirm the relationship exists in cmdb_rel_ci
Verify that the record has:
Parent: cmdb_ci_zos_server
Child: cmdb_ci_ip_address
Type: Owns::Owned by
Check if the relationship is filtered from the formatter/workspace
Some CMDB views/components may exclude dependent CI classes from the standard relationship display to avoid showing supporting/dependent records.
Validate the class configuration
Go to CI Class Manager and review the configuration for:
IP Address [cmdb_ci_ip_address]
Check whether it is configured as a dependent class and whether there are any relationship/display rules affecting it.
Test with a non-dependent CI class
Create the same type of relationship from cmdb_ci_zos_server to a normal CI class. If that relationship appears in the formatter/workspace, then the behavior is specific to the dependent IP Address class.
As a workaround, if the requirement is to show IP Address data on the CI form, you can add a related list on the cmdb_ci_zos_server form based on cmdb_rel_ci, filtered where the child CI is from cmdb_ci_ip_address. For CMDB Workspace, you may need to configure/customize the workspace component or expose this through a custom related list/section.

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Re: CI Relationships now showing up

Amar_Be — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:48:45 GMT

Hello,

Out-of-the-box, the relationsips betwwen the class cmdb_ci_ip_address and any child of cmdb_ci_hardware are hidden from the relationships formatter and the dependency map.

This is defined int he CI relation Filters table ( cmdb_rel_filter ).
You can disable this rule by setting its Active attribute on "false".