Blade server - Blade Centre CI relationship

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Blade server - Blade Centre CI relationship

Post by eneless »

Finally getting my head round configuring my CMDB and liking it more and more.

curently defining hardware relationships. We have a number of blade centres chassis each with 16 blade servers. I have created a hardware type CI for blade centre chassis. Obv the blade servers will fall under a computer CI. However, each blade server belongs to a chassis (the relationship for which I can easily create) but I wish to define which "slot number" in the chassis each server occupies.

Any ideas as to how I might do this?

thanks as always... :wink:
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Re: Blade server - Blade Centre CI relationship

Post by yuri0001 »

For example, create CI class Location and input your chassis in it as location with 16 slots and then, link every blade server to this location - as idea :?
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Re: Blade server - Blade Centre CI relationship

Post by eneless »

so something like: -
data centre CI (location) > Rack CI (location) > Blade chassis CI (hardware) > blade slot CI (location) > blade server CI (computer) ??
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Re: Blade server - Blade Centre CI relationship

Post by yuri0001 »

It is logical, but difficult. You must look on the understanding what goals you are pursuing to create such a structure - the visibility, accountability. Can be made ​​smaller nesting levels, but one of them an opportunity to make several copies of a subclass of, by analogy with computers - up to 16 CPU.
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Re: Blade server - Blade Centre CI relationship

Post by eneless »

The only issue I have with this is that I would have to create as many slot locations as there are blade servers. even though a blade centre has 16 slots, I have more than one blade centre, so would need to create a different CI for each slot on each blade centre.

seems long winded :(
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