Systems Inventory Manager Data Structures

Chapter 1

Data Structures

Data Table Legend

Each data table contains the following information:

• Group Name: One of the seven main groups of information.

• Category Name: One of 24 categories of information. It is the actual table name used in the database.

• Single Row/Multiple Rows: Defines if the data set is a single row or multiple rows for a selected data

snapshot.

• Table Attributes: Some of the 600 different system attributes.

• Filter Parameters column: Attributes that you can filter.

• Snapshot Presentation column: View you can use to see all collected attributes. SIM allows you to view all

the collected attributes.

• Snapshot Parameters column: Attributes that the GUI displays and you can display.

• Attributes in bold represent the primary keys of the table.

• The ‘~’ symbol denotes attributes that have no provider or the data cannot be collected. The attribute

collection may, however, change in the future.

• The operating system acronym (HP-UX) denotes the applicability of the attributes in the appropriate

column (Filter Parameters/Snapshot Presentation/Snapshot Parameters).