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Chapter 4: Creating Associations
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. The figure
below shows a custom view created using this example. You can customize the CC-SG to
organize and display your servers however you like.
Figure 19 CC-SG Association Example
Association Terminology
Read the following definitions to understand associations:
• Associations—are the relationships between categories, elements of a category, and nodes
and devices. For example, you want to associate the “Location” category with a device. You
should create associations first, or edit them later, before adding devices and ports in CC-SG.
• Category—is 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”. When you add devices to CC-SG, you associate this information with
them.
• Elements—are the values of a Category. For example, the “America” Element belongs to the
“Location” category.