Resource Categories; About Merging Resources; About The Resource Association Diagram - Symantec ALTIRIS CMDB SOLUTION 7.0 - V1.0 Manual

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Resource categories

Resource categories

About merging resources

About the Resource Association Diagram

Resource types are grouped into categories for convenience. Resource types within
a category have similar characteristics, a common purpose, or other similarities.
The following are the major resource categories:
Asset types.
Contract types.
Service types.
Datacenter types.
You can merge any two assets or contracts together into a single resource, even
if they do not contain the same fields. However, you cannot merge an asset with
a contract. This feature is useful if you have duplicate entries.
The data you merge does not need to be from the same resource type. Example:
you can merge a Printer and a Network Printer.
When data is merged between resources, you select which resource's data classes
to keep. For data types common to both resources, you select which resource's
data class to keep. If a data class exists only for the resource that is discarded, the
data for that data class is also discarded.
Associations from the resource that is to be deleted are transferred to the new
resource. If there is more than one of the same type of association, the older
association is deleted.
The Resource Association Diagram displays a graphic that shows a resource and
all associated resources. Use the Resource Association Diagram to view
relationships between assets, users, locations, departments, and cost centers.
From the Resource Association Diagram, you can select an associated resource
to see the resources that are associated with it.
The Resource Association Diagram has the following two filters:
Association Type Filter
This filter lets you choose which association types you want to see displayed
in the Resource Association Diagram.
Resource Type Filter