primary key
In BMC Atrium Integration Engine, an entity that uniquely identifies a row of data. You must specify the attributes of a configuration item (CI) class and the corresponding fields in the external data store to create the primary key. After a data transfer, the primary key is the link that matches a record in the external data store with its counterpart in BMC Atrium CMDB.
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