contains

The contains table stores data on physical and logical containment. This table belongs to the category containment.

The following table describe the contains table.

Table 1. contains table 
Column name Type Constraints Description
containingEntityId 32-bit integer

Foreign key

Not null

The identifier of the containing entity from the entityData table
containedEntityId 32-bit integer

Foreign key

Not null

The identifier of the contained entity from the entityData table
upwardConnection Boolean

Unique within domain

Takes one of the following values:

0: bidirectional
1: unidirectional
Used by the root-cause analysis (RCA) engine (a plug-in to the Event Gateway, ncp_g_event). This field enables the RCA engine to describe the connectivity between the entity identified by the containedEntityId field and other entities that share the same containing entity.