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How To Display MDR Attribute Values With CA CMDB Attribute Names

Metadata can create an association between MDR provider attributes and CA CMDB attributes so they are displayed together to see differences and share labels. By default, MDR attributes that do not have a mapping, are displayed as Not in CMDB in the viewer.

cmdbMetadata macro arguments to equate a CA CMDB attribute with an MDR provider attribute include:

• attr – CA CMDB attribute name
• provider_attr – MDR provider attribute name
• provider_name – MDR provider name
• provider_name_regexp – MDR provider name regular expression

provider_name or provider_name_regexp are required.

Example: Associate MDR Attributes with CA CMDB Attribute Names

The following three metadata statements do these respective actions:

• Equate the CA CMDB "phys_mem" attribute with the provider attribute "mdr_memory" for all providers named "myMdr".
• Equate the CA CMDB "phys_mem" attribute with the provider attribute "mdr_memory" for all provider names starting with "MDR".
• Equate "physical_memory" with "phys_mem" for all other providers.

  <macro name=cmdbMetadata attr="phys_mem"  provider_attr="mdr_memory" provider_name="myMdr">
  <macro name=cmdbMetadata attr="phys_mem"  provider_attr="mdr_memory" provider_name_regexp="MDR.*">
  <macro name=cmdbMetadata attr="phys_mem"  provider_attr="physical_memory" provider_name_regexp=".*">