In CDCM, the Templating feature enables efficient management of configurations. Templates are configurations that have distinct characteristics based on their type and state.
Templates can be used to:
Create new configurations.
Apply to existing configurations to update or modify them.
Creating a Template Configuration
Creating a template configuration required administrative permissions. The process is described here.
Basic Template use
After a template is created and enabled it can be used to create new configurations via the “add configuration” dialog in a unit:
Or it can be used to apply it to a existing configuration in the configuration context menu:
Excluding configuration item
Template use protocol
Baseline types
Template use and concept types
There are three factors that can influence the outcome when applying a template or using a template to create a new configuration:
the concept type of the configuration that was newly created or where the template was applied
the configuration concept type property “Associated Configuration Item Type”
the configuration concept type property “Associated Configuration Item Type From Template”
The sections shows how each of these influence the resulting configuration when using or applying a template.
Configuration type
The type that a configuration will have when it is created by using a template is not determined by the template. It is configured in the type of the parent units concept type by setting the “Associated Configuration Type” property.
This configuration concept type decides which property values from the template will be copied to the new configuration. All property types, complex property types and reference types that appear in both the configuration concept type of the template and in the configuration concept type of the new configuration will be copied when the new configuration is created from the template.
“Associated Configuration Item Type” and “Associated Configuration Item Type From Template”
This section talks about the two properties “Associated Configuration Item Type” and “Associated Configuration Item Type From Template” and mean the properties on the configuration concept type of new configuration that gets created when using a template. Not on the configuration concept type of the template itself
The configuration item concept type set in the “Associated Configuration Item Type” property is the type that configuration items have when:
they are created manually (so without the template process)
they are created via the template use (see section “Excluding configuration item”) but the “Associated Configuration Item Type From Template” property on the configuration concept type is empty
a template is applied to a configuration and there is no configuration item with the same title in the template configuration
If a configuration item concept type is set in the “Associated Configuration Item Type From Template” property in the configuration concept type then configuration items have this type in these two cases:
they are created when a new configuration is created from a template
they have the same title as a configuration item in the template when a template is applied
The image below illustrates the different scenarios:
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