Defining relationships between configuration items

Impact relationships define how status propagation is passed from the provider CI to the consumer CI. An active relationship is an impact relationship and indicates that the status of the CI depends on the status of the connected provider instance. An inactive relationship means that no dependency exists or that the dependency is irrelevant to the model; in either case, an impact relationship does not exist.

Whenever the status of the provider instance changes, it is propagated to the connected consumer CI.

For each CI for which you are creating relationships, you must know the following details:

• Whether it is a consumer or a provider for the related component
• Its relationship state value (active or inactive)
• Its status propagation model value ( impact relationship)

After you have created relationships, test them to verify that they function in the way that you intended.

Creating and editing component relationships

For information about creating and editing component relationships, see the BMC Atrium CMDB User's Guide at Support site.

Associating events with a configuration item

When an event is received by a cell, it is associated with the CI through alias formulas loaded on the cell. You can use the Alias Formulas Editor dialog box to define the formulas. For more information about alias formulas, see Alias formulae.