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Operating System Normalization Rules

Operating system normalization rules are intended for operating systems managing your computers, for example, Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, Windows Vista Enterprise Edition, and so forth.

Collected Operating System

A collected operating system is always a discovered operating system. Collected operating systems have a nonauthoritative status. You map nonauthoritative collected operating systems to normalized authoritative operating systems.

Normalized Operating System

A normalized operating system is always a product-defined operating system. Product-defined operating systems are collected from user input and other products that share the CA MDB. Product-defined operating systems always have an authoritative status. Authoritative status allows an operating system to have a normalization rule. You define a normalization rule for an authoritative normalized operating system when you map one or more collected operating systems to the authoritative operating system.

Subordinate Operating System

When you map a collected nonauthoritative operating system to a normalized authoritative operating system, the nonauthoritative operating system becomes subordinate to the authoritative operating system in the normalization rule.