The tangible/physical life-cycle states represent the overall life cycle of physical assets and CIs as related to their products. Tangible/physical assets are physical items that are stocked, for example computers, monitors, and keyboards. The stages and statuses for the tangible/physical life-cycle process are visible only in hardware-related tables in Asset Management and the CMDB.

Life-cycle values for tangible/physical CIs

For definitions of the values in the diagram, see Definitions of life-cycle values for tangible/physical CIs.

Relationships between CSDM stages and life cycle values.

Note: The [life_cycle_control] table uses the type of CI (tangible/physical, document and contract, location and so on) to determine which life cycle stage status values are available for each life cycle stage.

For additional information on how you can benefit from implementing life-cycle value pairs for CMDB entities, see the 'Map existing status values to CSDM life-cycle value pairs' section in the 'Foundation domain' topic.

Examples of tangible/physical classes

View attributes, identification rules, and other important schema structures for the CMDB Computer [cmdb_ci_computer] class in Hardware [cmdb_ci_hardware] class.