Edit and activate a life-cycle rule (Core UI)

Create, edit, or activate a life-cycle rule to define the retirement state in your organization, for a class. Tables that are targeted in life-cycle CMDB Data Manager policies, must be associated with an active life-cycle rule. Target CIs in Retire policies, are set to match their associated class retirement definitions.

Before you begin

Role required:

• data_manager_user has read access
• cmdb_admin and data_manager_admin have full access

About this task

Life-cycle rules in the base system are inactive and you must activate any rule that you want to use with a life-cycle CMDB Data Manager policy. To activate a life-cycle rule, set its Active attribute to true.

Each CMDB class can be associated with only a single rule. Life-cycle rules are stored in the CMDB Retirement Custom Definitions [cmdb_retirement_custom_definitions] table.

You can alternatively manage life-cycle rules in the Data Manager in CMDB Workspace. For more information, see Administer Data Manager in CMDB Workspace and Manage retirement definitions for CMDB Data Manager. Regardless of where you manage life-cycle rules and retirement definitions, those same definitions are used in both the Data Manager legacy built on Core UI (UI 16) and Data Manager in CMDB Workspace.

Note:

The retirement definition for the cmdb_ci class, can't be deactivated or deleted.

Procedure

1. Navigate to Configuration > CMDB Retirement Definitions.
2. In the list view, select the life-cycle rule/table that you want to edit and then edit or fill out the CMDB Retirement Custom Definition form.

   Field	Description
   Active	Activates the life-cycle rule.
   Table	The CMDB class that the life-cycle rule applies to, including any child classes of the specified class.
   Retirement definition	One or more attribute conditions that together define the retirement state for the class. Target CIs in Retire policies that belong to the specified table, are set as specified in the retirement definition. Therefore, you can only use AND clauses in this definition while OR clauses aren't applicable.

3. Select Update.

Result

After the deletion, a retirement definition for the class is derived from a parent class.

What to do next

To delete a retirement definition (in Core UI), the retirement definition must be in an inactive mode (Active = false):

1. Navigate to Configuration > CMDB Retirement Definitions, and then select the retirement definition that you want to delete.
2. On the CMDB Retirement Custom Definition form, select Delete.
3. In the Delete retirement definition form, select Delete.