What is the difference between BS/CI relationships and associations?

stefanlowrie
Kilo Explorer

‎12-09-2016 11:31 AM

Creating relationships is pretty straight forward.   I can make a business service like "Email Service" depend on a CI like "Exchange Server" using the relationship editor.   These relationships are stored in the cmdb_rel_ci table.   But I see a separate table out there called svc_ci_assoc that creates "associations" between a business service and a CI.   Can anyone explain what the purpose of that table is and when you would use associations instead of relationships?   What forms or functions in the system use this association data?

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bernyalvarado
Mega Sage

‎12-10-2016 10:19 PM

Hi Stefan,



The association data found in the svc_ tables is used by ServiceMapping. As ServiceMapping performs the top-down discovery, it does not store the relationship between the CIs and the business Services in the cmdb_rel_ci table but it will instead store the relationship within the table svc_model_assoc_ci (among at other svc_* tables).



Thanks,


Berny


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bernyalvarado
Mega Sage

‎12-10-2016 10:20 PM

I hope this helps!



Thanks,


Berny


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