Location life cycle

The CSDM framework provides standard fields and values that you can use to track the life cycle of an asset or a CI. The location life-cycle states represent the overall life cycle of a location within common data.

Location life-cycle states

A life-cycle state is the combination life-cycle stage and life-cycle status of an asset or CI over the life cycle. For example, a location CI in the Operational stage might change status over time from In Use to Pending Retirement. A different location CI in the Operational stage might go from the Available status directly to Pending Retirement status without ever having been in the In Use status.

The stage and status values for locations are visible only in the common data locations table.

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Based on the type of item, the [life_cycle_control] table specifies which life cycle stage 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 'life-cycle value pair' section in the 'Foundation domain' topic.

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