How to add additional attributes to the Spectrum Modeling Gateway cmdb export

Products

• CA Spectrum

Issue/Introduction

This knowledge document discusses how to add additional attributes to the Spectrum Modeling Gateway cmdb export

Environment

CA Spectrum all versions on all operating systems

Resolution

The following are the instructions to add the Location attribute id 0x23000d and ContactPerson attribute id 0x23000c to the Spectrum Modeling Gateway cmdb export output:

1. Log into the SpectroSERVER system as the user that owns the Spectrum installaiton

2. Make a backup of the $SPECROOT/SS-Tools/.cmdbresource.xml file

3. Edit the .cmdbresource.xml file and add the following tags highlighted below:

<CMDBAttributeMapping> 
<CMDBAttribute>description</CMDBAttribute> 
<SPECTRUMAttribute>0x12c03</SPECTRUMAttribute> <!-- USER_AssetDescription --> 
</CMDBAttributeMapping> 

<CMDBAttributeMapping> 
<CMDBAttribute>location</CMDBAttribute> 
<SPECTRUMAttribute>0x23000d</SPECTRUMAttribute> 
</CMDBAttributeMapping> 

<CMDBAttributeMapping> 
<CMDBAttribute>contact</CMDBAttribute> 
<SPECTRUMAttribute>0x23000c</SPECTRUMAttribute> 
</CMDBAttributeMapping> ​

When the Modeling Gateway cmdb export is run, you should now see "location" and "contact" in the output IF the model has these attributes populated:

<GRLoader> 
<ci> 
<class>Network Switch</class> 
<mac_address>00:xx:xx:xx:xx:99</mac_address> 
<system_name>Sim15090:Lab-A1</system_name> 
<contact>CA Technologies</contact> 
<name>Sim15090:Lab-A1</name> 
<description>Lab sim 15090</description> 
<network_address>10.241.248.19</network_address> 
<serial_number>08859477</serial_number> 
<location>273 Corporate Drive Portsmouth, NH 03391</location> 
<alarm_id>1.2.3.4</alarm_id> 
<federated_asset_id>0x4000092</federated_asset_id> 
<ip_mgmt_addr>127.0.0.1</ip_mgmt_addr> 
<mdr_class>SPECTRUM</mdr_class> 
<mdr_name>OneClick</mdr_name> 
</ci> 
</GRLoader> 
 

Additional Information

Please refer to the "Modeling Gateway Toolkit" section of the documentation for more information.