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System Parameters
Parametrization - Configuration
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configuration management is the registration and detailed updating of information that describes a company's hardware and software registration and detailed updating of information that describes a company's hardware and software it is a process to establish and maintain the consistency of a product's performance, its functional attributes, and other operational information throughout its life the configuration parametrization must be performed to allow the execution/use of this process it may be possible to define the group name for the configuration items that do not have a group, to define the destination of the sending notification e mails that are close to expiring the ci of type software, define the domain name of the network, among others procedure access the functionality through the main menu parametrization > configuration management ; set the values of parameters (attributes); click on " save "; the list below presents the parameters of " configuration " with the purpose of each one of them \# name possible values purpose additional guidance 3 search node (eg hardware) e g hardware search in the defined node's xml document after generating the inventory, the xml file will be generated, where it will read the node (s) as defined in this parameter not applicable 4 search attribute (eg ipaddr, name, userid) e g ipaddr,name,uderid search the xml document for defined attributes after identifying the node, the attribute (s) as defined in this parameter will be checked inside the node not applicable 5 path installers enter the path of the defined directory to store the executable files of the software to be installed not applicable 60 group of new configuration items define the group name for configuration items that have no group this id is set in the "configuration item group" screen not applicable 73 the number of days to notify license expiration (default 90 days) default 90 days set the days in advance of the ci license expiration date to notify the ci group or owner about the expiration when creating the "software" type configuration item, the expiration date, that is, the date the software license expires must be entered the e mail template defined in parameter 75 will be used to notify the group or owner of the ci defined in parameter 74, prior to n days (defined in this parameter) of the expiry date of the ci license if you do not enter the number of days, the system default value will be set 90 (ninety) days 74 send e mail to ci group or owner? (1 group 2 owner) 1 group 2 owner define to who will be sent the e mails notifying that the ci of type software has the license close to expiration 1 = group or 2 = owner if you do not enter the value of the parameter, no e mail will be sent 75 e mail template id for sending notification of license close to expiration enter the license notification e mail template's id number near the expiration it will be used to send the notification of the ci of type software that is with the license near the expiration of the email template defined in this parameter this e mail template id is set on the "e mail template" screen if you do not enter the identification number (id) of the e mail template, you may not send the correct e mail 76 network domain name (eg company, corporation) e g company, corporation set the domain name of the network not applicable 85 check change related to ci? y or n define if the configuration item (ci) link to the change is mandatory if the "y" value is set, registering a configuration item in the "configuration item" screen should relate the ci to the change if you do not enter the parameter value, the system default value will be used "y" (yes) 87 e mail template id for ci creation notification e g 16 enter the identification number (id) of the configuration item (ci) creation notification e mail template when creating a ci in the "configuration item management" screen, the e mail template defined in this parameter will be used to send the ci creation notification this notification will be sent to the owner and/or group associated with the ci this e mail template id is set on the "e mail template" screen if you do not enter the identification number (id) of the e mail template, you may not send the correct e mail 88 e mail template id for ci change notification e g 14 enter the identification number (id) of the notification e mail template of changing the configuration item (ci) when changing a ci in the "configuration item management" screen, the ci change notification will be used to send the email template defined in this parameter this notification will be sent to the owner and/or group associated with the ic this email template id is set on the "email template" screen if you do not enter the identification number (id) of the e mail template, you may not send the correct email 89 group ci change model (eg 15) e g 15 enter the identification number (id) of the configuration item group (ci) change notification e mail template when changing a ci group in the "configuration item management" screen, the ci template change notification will be used for the email template defined in this parameter this notification will be sent to the owner and/or group associated with the ci this email template id is set on the "e mail template" screen if you do not enter the identification number (id) of the e mail template, you may not send the correct e mail 90 sending ci notification e mails (1 group, 2 owner, 3 all) (default 1) 1 group, 2 owner, 3 all (default 1) define for whom will be sent e mail notifications of configuration items (cis) 1 = group, 2 = owner or 3 = all if you do not enter the parameter value, the system default value will be used "1" = group 92 name of the ci group that is in the development phase (eg cis in development) e g development define the name of the ci group that is in the development phase in the "configuration item management" screen, the name of the development phase ci group, as defined in this parameter, is displayed if you do not enter the parameter value, the name of the development phase ci group will not be displayed on the "configuration item management" screen 93 name of the ci group that is in the production phase (eg cis in production) e g production define the name of the ci group that is in the production phase in the "configuration item management" screen, the name of the production phase ci group, as defined in this parameter, is displayed if you do not enter the parameter value, the name of the production phase ci group will not be displayed on the "configuration item management" screen 94 name of the ci group that is in the homologation phase (eg cis in homologation) e g homologation define the name of the group of cis that are in the homologation phase in the "configuration item management" screen, the name of the ci group of the approval phase, as defined in this parameter, will be displayed if you do not enter the parameter value, the name of the ci group of the approval phase will not be displayed on the "configuration item management" screen 95 name of the cis group inventoried (default inventory) e g inventory define the name of the ic group generated from the automatic inventory on the "configuration item management" screen, in the development phase of the ci group, the name of the configuration items group generated from the automatic inventory, as defined in this parameter, is displayed there is no negative impact if you do not enter the value of the parameter, the system default value is inventory 96 the id of the developing ci group (eg 1) e g 1 define the id number of the ci group of the development phase in the "configuration item management" screen, a group will be created that will represent the lifecycle phase of the developing ci, according to the id defined in this parameter and the description defined in parameter 92 there is no negative impact if you do not enter the value of the parameter, the system default value will be used 997 97 the id of ci group in production (eg 2) e g 2 set the identification number (id) of the ci group of the production phase in the "configuration item management" screen, a group will be created that will represent the lifecycle phase of the production ci, according to the id defined in this parameter and the description defined in parameter 93 there is no negative impact if you do not enter the value of the parameter, the system default value is used 998 98 the id of ci group in homologation (eg 3) e g 3 define the identification number (id) of the ci group of the homologation phase in the "configuration items management" screen, a group will be created that will represent the lifecycle phase of the ci being homologated, according to the id defined in this parameter and the description defined in parameter 94 there is no negative impact if you do not enter the parameter value, the system default value is 999 99 the id of ci group inventoried (eg 4) e g 4 define the id number of the configuration items inventory group in the "configuration item management" screen, in the ci group of the development phase, a group is created for the ci generated from the automatic inventory, according to the id defined in this parameter and the description defined in parameter 95 there is no negative impact if you do not enter the value of the parameter, the system default value is 1000 140 default ci group ids in development define the identification number (id) of the default group of ci in development in the "configuration item management" screen, in the ci group of the development phase, a default group is created for the ci in development, according to the id defined in this parameter and the description defined in parameter 143 there is no negative impact if you do not enter the parameter value, the system default value is 1001 141 default ci group id in homologation define the identification number (id) of the standard group of ci in homologation in the "configuration items management" screen, in the ci group of the homologation phase, a default group will be created for the ci in the homologation, according to the id defined in this parameter and the description defined in parameter 144 there is no negative impact if you do not enter the value of the parameter, the system default value is 1002 142 default ci group id in production define the identification number (id) of the standard group of ci in production in the "configuration item management" screen, in the production phase of ci group, a default group is created for the ci in production, according to the id defined in this parameter and the description defined in parameter 145 there is no negative impact if you do not enter the value of the parameter, the system default value is 1003 143 default group name of cis in development (eg development default) e g development default define the default group name of ci in development in the "configuration item management" screen, in the ci group of the development phase, the name of the default group of ci in development, as defined in this parameter, is displayed if you do not enter the value of the parameter, the name of the default group of ci in development is not displayed 144 default group name of the cis in homologation (eg homologation default) e g homologation default define the name of the default group of ci in homologation in the "configuration items management" screen, in the group of ci of the homologation phase, the name of the standard group of ci in the homologation, as defined in this parameter, will be displayed if you do not enter the value of the parameter, the name of the default group of ci under approval is not displayed 145 default group name of cis in production (ex production default) e g production default define the default group name of ci in production in the "configuration item management" screen, in the production phase of the ci group, the name of the default group of ci in production, as defined in this parameter, is displayed if you do not enter the value of the parameter, the default group name of ci in production will not be displayed 248 the id of the e mail template that will be used during asset monitoring enter the identification number (id) of the e mail template that will be used during the asset monitoring this e mail template id is set on the "e mail template" screen if the identification number (id) is not correctly entered, the system will not send notification e mails 249 asset monitoring number of threads? (default '10') default 10 define the number of threads that will make the asset monitoring not applicable 250 display name in the configuration items tree (eg y or n default 'y') y or n (default y) define if the "name" field will be used to display the configuration item on the configuration items management screen if you do not enter or have a 'y' value, the value of the 'name' field of the configuration item will be displayed in the list of configuration items in the configuration items management screen if the value entered is 'n', the value of the "identification" field of the configuration item is displayed in the list not applicable 440 the minimum amount of registries that determines whether the data export will be executed in the background use whenever the user wishes to inform the minimum amount of registries that the system must execute the export in the background not applicable table 1 parameters list