>From what I recall from training, that was a best practice before CMDB 2. >They recommended NOT doing that in CMDB 2 training for performance reasons.
Otherwise, I'm not sure I see a point in creating separate rules for determine the best-of-the-best and then having another set of rules for reconciling into Gold. It keeps track of where it gets each attribute from, so there's no need to have another reconciliation job to determine which one is best, because it will simply use the best one as defined by your precedence rules either way. Concerning your last point, perhaps I haven't done enough recon work, but it seems you're either going to have to add your staging dataset to the recon rules for your new data source, or you're going to add your Gold dataset. That seems like a wash either way. Then again, perhaps I'm just missing something. Lyle -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Romain Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Reconciliation IDsþ BMC best practice is to merge multiple CI sources into a staging dataset before merging into production. This allows you to keep the recon rules creating the best-of-the-best imported data separate from the business recon rules you use to update your golden dataset. It also makes it easier to add new data sources as you don't need to include the golden dataset in each of the individual import recon rules. Of course, it increases the number of CIs but I think that's a price worth paying to keep things manageable. > Why are you merging A and B into C and then C into Gold rather than > merging A and B (and perhaps C depending on whether it has any of its own > data) directly into Gold? Which version of the CMDB are you using? If > you're on version 2 or higher, it keeps track of which dataset each > attribute came from, so it still applies all of your precedence rules > regardless of what order you merge the different datasets into Gold. > > Lyle Taylor > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heanai > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Reconciliation IDsþ > > Hello, > > I am having a bit of an issue. I have two datasets A and B. I use the > Reconciliation Engine to merge attributes of these two to C. This works > fine. However when i try to Reconcile C to the Gold Dataset it doesn't > work > as C already has a Reconciliation ID. Is there any way around this? > > Thanks, > Sean > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Reconciliation-IDs%E2%80%8F-tp2199691p2199691.html > Sent from the ARS (Action Request System) mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > > > NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended > recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any > unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If > you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply > email and destroy all copies of the original message. > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
