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About Associations .................................................................................. 41
Adding, Editing, and Deleting Categories and Elements ........................ 42
Adding Categories and Elements with CSV File Import .......................... 43
About Associations
You can set up Associations to help organize the equipment that CC-SG
manages. Each Association includes a Category, which is the top-level
organizational group, and its related Elements, which are subsets of a
Category. For example, you may have Raritan devices that manage
target servers in data centers in America, Asia Pacific, and Europe. You
could set up an Association that organizes this equipment by location.
Then, you can customize the CC-SG to display your Raritan devices and
nodes according to your chosen Category-Location, and its associated
Elements - America, Asia Pacific, and Europe, in the CC-SG interface.
You can customize the CC-SG to organize and display your servers
however you like.
Association Terminology
Associations - the relationships between categories, elements of a
category, and nodes and devices.
Category - a variable that contains a set of values called elements.
An example of a category is Location, which may have elements
such as “America” and “Asia Pacific.” Another example of a category
is “OS Type,” which may have elements such as “Windows” or “Unix”
or “Linux.”
Elements -
the values of a category. For example, the “America”
element belongs to the “Location” category.
Associations - Defining Categories and Elements
Raritan devices and nodes are organized by categories and elements.
Each category/element pair is assigned to a device, a node, or both.
A category is a group of similar elements.
Category
Elements
OS Type
Unix, Windows, Linux
Department
Sales, IT, Engineering
Chapter 5
Associations, Categories, and
Elements
