Tag Archives: classes

Adding an ID or auto incrementing property to default classes

Posted on 06/03/2013 by Marcel Zehner

We have lots of Service Manager customers that have comprehensive CMDBs where they store all kind of object types and relationships. When defining your very own classes you know that every class should have a key property. Often this is … Continue reading →

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Sample MP – Relation between classes, type projections, views and forms

Posted on 30/07/2011 by Marcel Zehner

Based on several requests, I created a sample MP that has a class definition with a relationship to another class, a type projection, a view that uses the type projection and a specific form for managing objects of this class. … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged class, classes, projections, relation, relations, relationship, service request, type projections, view, views | 8 Comments

CSV-Import of Objects using Type Projections

Posted on 20/05/2011 by Marcel Zehner

A while ago I have written a post about CSV Import of objects. Last time I was just mentioning about importing objects of specific classes. But what about importing objects of combination classes (aka type projections)? This would be the … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged class, classes, csv, import, projections | 18 Comments

Bringing discovered SCOM objects to Service Manager – Part 2/2

Posted on 13/02/2011 by Marcel Zehner

In the first part of this series I showed how to synchronize objects that live in SCOM to the Service Manager CMDB. This works fine, but in some situations it’s possible that objects will not be visible – because they … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged class, classes, connector, import, management packs, mp, scom | 5 Comments

Bringing discovered SCOM objects to Service Manager – Part 1/2

Posted on 10/02/2011 by Marcel Zehner

Service Manager allows to build a comprehensive CMDB by using connectors. One very important connector is the SCOM CI connector (System Center Operations Manager) that allows objects that are discovered and monitored by SCOM to be synchronized with the Service … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged class, classes, connector, import, management packs, mp, scom | 2 Comments

Relations between Objects

Posted on 02/01/2011 by Marcel Zehner

Sometimes it can be useful to group different objects together. One requirement could be, to group a Computer, a Monitor and a Printer Object together to form a Workplace Object. This could be useful to easily recognize which objects belong … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged authoring tool, classes, customization, forms, inheritance, relations, relationship | 11 Comments

Creating Classes

Posted on 01/01/2011 by Marcel Zehner

In Service Manager, instances of classes represent managed objects. if you want to manage non-default objects, it’s necessary to create new custom classes. The creation of classes can be done in two different ways. First, classes can be created using … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged classes, customization, inheritance, views | 11 Comments