Company normalization rules are intended for key organizations with which you have a business relationship, for example, Microsoft, Adobe, Lenovo, and so forth.
A collected company is either a discovered company or a product-defined company. Product-defined companies are collected from user input and other products that share the CA MDB. Hardware reconciliation reconciles only discovered companies. Collected companies have a nonauthoritative status. You map nonauthoritative collected companies to normalized authoritative companies.
Important! Only discovered collected companies that are mapped to normalized companies are reconciled during Hardware Reconciliation.
A normalized company is either a CA-content company or a product-defined company. CA-content companies are provided with CA APM and have an authoritative status. Authoritative status allows a company to have a normalization rule. You define a normalization rule for an authoritative normalized company when you map one or more collected companies to the authoritative company.
Product-defined companies initially have a nonauthoritative status. You can change the status of a product-defined company from nonauthoritative to authoritative. You can then map a collected company to the authoritative product-defined company to define a normalization rule. Only company normalization rules for discovered collected companies affect Hardware Reconciliation.
When you map a collected nonauthoritative company to a normalized authoritative company, the nonauthoritative company becomes subordinate to the authoritative company in the normalization rule.
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