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CI/Relationship History Dialog Box

This dialog box displays a list of CI or relationship attributes in which changes have occurred as well as the differences between two configuration files.

To access

In IT Universe Manager, right-click the selected CI or relationship in the CI Selector or the Topology Map and select CI History.

Note CI and relationship history data is also available in the History tab of the Advanced pane in IT Universe Manager.
Important information

All CI and relationship attributes are included in the History, except for attributes marked with the Not Tracked for History qualifier in the CI Type Manager. For details, see Add/Edit Attribute Dialog Box.

Note In a multi-tenancy environment, the CI History dialog box only displays history events that are relevant to the tenants associated with your View CIs permission. However, Remove CI/relationship events that occurred before an upgrade to UCMDB version 10.01 are displayed independent of the tenants associated with the View CIs permission.
See also

User interface elements are described below:

UI Element (A-Z) Description
Refresh. Refreshes the data in the table.

Show Difference. Enables you to view the difference between two history entries for the content of a configuration file. This is relevant in the following situations:

  • Select two history entries for the Document Content attribute for CIs of the type Configuration Document to compare to each other.

  • Select one history entry for the Document Content attribute for CIs of the type Configuration Document to compare to the current content for that CI.

Click the Show difference button to open the Visualdiff report, which displays a comparison of the two entries. Text added to the second entry appears highlighted in yellow. Text removed from the first entry appears highlighted in red. Differences between the entries appear highlighted in green.

Export Data To File. Enables you to export the history data. Choose the export format from the following options:

  • XLS. The table data is formatted as an .xls (Excel) file that can be displayed in a spreadsheet.

  • PDF. The table data is exported in PDF format.

    Note When exporting to PDF, select a reasonable number of columns to display to ensure that the report is legible.

  • RTF. The table data is exported in Rich Text Format.

  • CSV. The table data is formatted as a comma-separated values (CSV) text file that can be displayed in a spreadsheet.

    Note For the CSV formatted table data to display correctly, the comma (,) must be defined as the list separator. In Windows, to verify or modify the list separator value, open Regional Options from the Control Panel, and on the Numbers tab ensure that the comma is defined as the List Separator value. In Linux, you can specify the list separator in the application that opens the CSV file.

  • XML. The table data is formatted as an XML file that can be opened in a text or XML editor.

Tip To extract HTML code from the report:

  • Open the file in an HTML editor

  • Copy the relevant table into the target file

Attribute The name of the attribute.
Change Date The date when the last change occurred.
Filter by

Filter the data in the table by one or more of the following filters:

  • Time Range. Select the time period for which the CI history is displayed.

  • Change Type. Select the type of changes displayed in the table.

  • Attribute. Select the attribute types displayed in the table.
Modified By Indicates the cause of the change. For example, the field can contain the name of a user or a DFM job.
New Value The new value of the attribute.
Old Value The previous value of the attribute.

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