Creating relationships

You create relationships to define rules that determine how assets or configuration items relate to each other. These rules affect how you deploy, manage, and search for assets and configuration items.

Procedure

  1. In the Relationships application, click the New Relationship icon.
  2. Select the type of relationship. Type defines the relationship as either BIDIRECTIONAL or UNIDIRECTIONAL.
  3. In the Use With field, enter or select ASSET, for asset relationships, or CI, for configuration item relationships.
  4. Optional: If the linear asset features are available, specify these options:
    • To use the relationship with linear assets, select Linear.
    • To use the relationship as a reference point in linear assets, select Is Reference Point.
  5. Optional: Specify a complementary relationship.
    Including a complementary relationship allows search programs to find instances of a configuration item when it is a source and when it is a target.
  6. Optional: Define asset or CI relationship rules.
  7. Save the new relationship.