Related assets
If two assets or configuration items (CIs) have the same relation type, the two assets / CIs are known as related assets.
Examples of asset / CI relation types:
• Network connections: the connection between wall sockets, server racks etc. and their network cables.
• Redundancy: an ISDN backup line for the main WAN link, or a server that forms a cluster together with another server.
• Continuity: link a CI which is located at another site and which is to be used as replacement in case the service that the first hardware CI supports needs to be recovered at its continuity site.
• Dependency between software CIs.
• License: a software license certificate, linking all software CIs that are covered by the same license.