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System Model Normalization Rules

System model normalization rules are intended for hardware devices such as a computer, for example, Lenovo ThinkPad T400, Lenovo ThinkCentre M58, and so forth.

Collected System Model

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

Normalized System Model

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

Subordinate System Model

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