I'm new to iTop and have a question about on-boarding a VCS cluster of physical servers. I can't find anything in the data model that does this neatly. Farms and Hypervisors can track a related group of systems, but only if those systems are virtual machines.
I have three physical servers - apple, banana, and cherry. They are related to each other in that each is running VCS and has a VCS configuration that will fail applications over to other hosts in the group. An application running on apple can fail over to banana or cherry, and so on. There is no supervisor system - they are truly peers, but they are related to each other through this VCS configuration.
What is the most correct way to represent this in the iTop data model? The best idea I've come up with is to create a software system called "VCS-apple-banana-cherry" and create software instances of that system on each of the three physical hosts. I can't be the first person to wrestle with this, or the smartest. What solutions have others used?
I'm not sure if this question is best directed to the 'Installing and using iTop' forum or the 'Customizing iTop' forum, so I'm cross-posting. Apologies in advance if that's a breach of etiquette.
--Ken
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I'm new to iTop and have a question about on-boarding a VCS cluster of physical servers. I can't find anything in the data model that does this neatly. Farms and Hypervisors can track a related group of systems, but only if those systems are virtual machines.
I have three physical servers - apple, banana, and cherry. They are related to each other in that each is running VCS and has a VCS configuration that will fail applications over to other hosts in the group. An application running on apple can fail over to banana or cherry, and so on. There is no supervisor system - they are truly peers, but they are related to each other through this VCS configuration.
What is the most correct way to represent this in the iTop data model? The best idea I've come up with is to create a software system called "VCS-apple-banana-cherry" and create software instances of that system on each of the three physical hosts. I can't be the first person to wrestle with this, or the smartest. What solutions have others used?
I'm not sure if this question is best directed to the 'Installing and using iTop' forum or the 'Customizing iTop' forum, so I'm cross-posting. Apologies in advance if that's a breach of etiquette.
--Ken
I think I found a solution - 'Groups of CIs.' I can group the three servers together and enter 'VCS Cluster' as the reason.