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CI Naming Conventions and Restrictions

CIs have the following naming conventions and restrictions:

• CI Name

  This is the common or display name used in all CI lists. The total length of the name must not exceed 255 characters. The CI name does not need to be unique, but we recommend that it is globally unique. In addition, for situations where the name is determined by an MDR, we recommend that MDR administrators emphasize human readability when populating this field.

• Software CIs

  For third-party software, follow the same naming convention for any CIs as the names that you manually create using the Administration tab. Matching naming conventions lets CA Cohesion ACM-discovered CIs reconcile to the manually created ones. If this convention is not followed, multiple CIs can be created even when there is only one software instance.

• Use of systemname Attribute

  The systemname attribute uniquely associates a single CI with a particular host name.

  If multiple CIs are imported that specify the same systemname as an existing CI, reconciliation helps ensure that only one CI results.

Example

The following output lines show the creation of a Server CI (provider), a Software CI (dependent), and a runs relationship between them. The resulting relationship represents a server that runs Apache software.

CI:  Name: Server1     Class: Server   Systemname: Server1
CI:  Name: Apache1   ON Server1      Class: Software
Relationship:  Server1 runs Apache1   ON Server1