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Federate a CI

If CIs are loaded into CA CMDB before their corresponding MDR is defined, they are unfederated, which means that they are not yet connected to an MDR and do not yet support “launch in context”.

To federate a CI

1. Define the required MDR.
2. Do one of the following:
   • Manually map the CI.
   • Re-run the CA Cohesion ACM report which created the CI, specifying Allow update of existing CIs on the report.

     Note: For more information about CA Cohesion ACM Reports, see the CA Cohesion ACM Product Guide.

3. Re-run GRLoader, specifying the same input file that was used to create the CIs.

   The CA CMDB reconciliation engine merges the MDR information into the existing CIs.

4. Create an XML document that describes the CI and its MDR and run GRLoader in Update mode.

   The CA CMDB reconciliation engine merges the new information into the existing CI. The existing CI is federated.

Example: Specify CI Location

You must verify that the reconciliation engine is provided with enough information to locate the CI you want to update. In the following example, end tags are removed and spaces added for readability.

<ci>
   <name>         server3
   <mac_address>
   <serial_number>
   <asset_num>
   <dns_name>
   <mdr_name>     mdr_one
   <mdr_class>    Cohesion
</ci>