Can I Populate Sub-Item Deletions

Yes.

Service Manager and UCMDB store CI information in different data structures, and therefore one SM CI may be synchronized to UCMDB as several CIs. For example, during population, an SM computer CI record is synchronized to a Node CI in UCMDB, and the computer CI’s attributes to CIs such as IP, Interface, Location, etc (which are referred to as sub-items of the Node CI.). In this case, the Node CI is the root CI.

The integration allows you to populate sub-item deletions to UCMDB (for example, if you delete the IP Address attribute value of a computer, the corresponding IP CI record in UCMDB will be deleted too). To do so, you need to specify a root in the CI type’s population xslt file, using parameter isRoot="true". For example, for Computer CIs, the “node” should be specifed as the root.

Out-of-the-box, only the computer_population.xslt file requires the “node” CI be specified as the root, as shown below:

<ci class="node" isRoot="true">