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Configuration Item Properties Dialog Box

This dialog box enables you to view and edit basic information for an existing CI or relationship.

To access

Select Managers > Modeling > IT Universe Manager and use one of the following:

  • Select a CI or relationship in the topology map or a CI in the CI Selector. In the Advanced Pane, select the Properties tab and click Edit.

  • Select a CI or relationship in the topology map or a CI the CI Selector and click the Show CI Properties button.

  • Right-click a CI or relationship in the Topology map or a CI in the CI Selector and select Properties.
Important information

The Configuration Item Properties dialog box contains two types of properties:

  • General properties, which include general information about the CI or relationship. These properties are common to all CITs and are documented below.

  • CIT-specific properties, which include properties specific to that CI. These properties vary according to the type of CI or relationship and are not documented.

When you sort the properties by category, the CIT-specific properties appear at the top of the list and the general properties appear at the bottom.

You can view a description of the selected property in the Description Area at the bottom of the dialog box. Click the Show/Hide Description Area button to display the Description Area.

Mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk (*).

Note Universal CMDB does not fully support surrogate pairs and combining characters.
See also

User interface elements are described below (unlabeled elements are shown in angle brackets):

UI Element (A-Z) Description
Categorized. Displays the properties by category.
Alphabetic. Displays the properties alphabetically.
Show/Hide Description Area. Toggles between showing and hiding the description area at the bottom of the CI Properties dialog box.
Expand. Expands the properties tree when the properties are displayed by category.
Collapse. Collapses the properties tree when the properties are displayed by category.

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

  • Excel. 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

<Quick filter>

Enter a string in the Quick filter box to filter the property names and values. Click the left end of the box to open the drop-down menu of filter options:

  • Select All to search for the filter string in both property names and property values. Select Name to search for the filter string in property names only. Select Value to search for the filter string in property values only.

  • Select Case sensitive to search for the filter string exactly as entered. Select Case insensitive to ignore the case of the filter string.

  • Select Use wild cards to use the wildcard symbol * in the filter string.

  • Select Match from start to search for the filter string at the beginning of a property name or value. Select Match exactly to search for the exact filter string. Select Match anywhere to search for the filter string anywhere in the properties.
Actual Deletion Period The number of days after which the CI or relationship is deleted.
Allow CI Update

When selected, this option allows the DFM process to automatically update the CI or relationship properties with information that it discovers. If you change the value of a property supplied by the DFM process, the value is overridden by the discovered value.

When this option is cleared, the CI or relationship properties are not overridden by the DFM process.
Apply Click Apply to save the changes made to the CI or relationship properties.
CI Type The type of the CI or relationship (read-only value). For information about CITs in Universal CMDB, see CI Type Manager.
Created By The user name of the administrator who manually created the CI or relationship, where applicable (read-only value).
Create Time The date and time when the CI or relationship was created.
Deletion Candidate Period The period after which the CI becomes a candidate for deletion when the aging mechanism is enabled.
Description A brief description of the CI or relationship.
Display Label The name of the CI or relationship as it appears in the CI Selector.
Edit In the Properties tab of the Advanced pane, you can view a CI's properties but you cannot edit them. Click Edit to open the Configuration Item Properties dialog box where you can edit the properties.
Enable Aging

If a CI or relationship is not updated or refreshed over a period of time (for example, a CI is not rediscovered by DFM and no manual update occurs), an aging mechanism deletes the CI from the CMDB. For details, see The Aging Mechanism Overview.

True: the aging mechanism is enabled for this CI or relationship.

False: the aging mechanism is disabled for this CI or relationship.

Note  

  • If the aging mechanism is disabled in Aging Status, this field is ignored.

  • This field is displayed for certain CIs only.

  • The default value is determined by the default value of the Enable Aging attribute for the CI type of the selected CI.
Global Id The internal ID of the CI or relationship in the CMDB (read-only value).
Last Access Time

The time that the CI or relationship was last accessed, whether when being updated or being discovered by DFM. This field is only displayed for certain CIs or relationships.

This parameter is used by the aging mechanism. For details, see CI Lifecycle and the Aging Mechanism.

Note By default, this property is updated every time the CI is touched by a running discovery job or integration. To prevent this property from being updated by a discovery job or integration, go to the Data Flow Management module, and in the Adapter Management > Adapter Configuration tab, clear the Update last access time option. For more details, see Adapter Configuration Tab.
LastDiscoveredBy The Universal Discovery job that last discovered the CI or relationship properties.
LastDiscoveredByProbe The Data Flow Probe that last discovered the CI or relationship properties.
LastDiscoveredTime

The date and time when the CI or relationship properties were last discovered by the Data Flow Probe.
LastModifiedTime The date and time when the CI or relationship properties were last updated.
Name The name of the CI or relationship.
Note Enables you to enter other information about the CI or relationship.
Origin An ID for the source that automatically created the CI or relationship, or the application where the CI or relationship was created (read-only value).
Reset Click the Reset button to restore the original property settings of the CI or relationship.
Updated by The user name of the administrator who updated the CI or relationship properties.
User Label Enables you to define a display label for the CI or relationship. If no value is entered, the CI name appears as the default label.

Note The following table shows the difference among Last Access Time, LastDiscoveredTime, LastDiscoveredBy, LastDiscoveredByProbe, LastModifiedTime, Updated By, Create Time, and Created By. It indicates whether these properties are updated by the discovery, UI change, enrichment rule, integration, and other APIs. Y means the property is updated. N means the property is not updated.

Property Name (Display Name) Discovery UI Change Enrichment Rule Integration Other APIs Examples
Create Modify Touch

Create

Modify

Create

Modify

Create

Modify

Touch

Create

Modify

Last Access Time

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Mon Jun 11 15:16:55 CST 2018

LastDiscoveredTime

Y

Y

Y

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

Jun 11 10:45:07 CST 2018

LastDiscoveredBy

Y

Y

Y

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

Host Resources/Applications by Shell

LastDiscoveredByProbe

Y

Y

Y

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

DataFlowProbe

LastModifiedTime

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Fri Jun 08 10:54:50 CST 2018

Updated By

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

UCMDBDiscovery: Inventory Discovery by Scanner

Create Time

Y

N

N

Y

N

Y

N

Y

N

N

Y

N

Fri Jun 08 10:44:25 CST 2018

Created By

Y

N

N

Y

N

Y

N

Y

N

N

Y

N

UCMDBDiscovery: Host Connection by Shell

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