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CI Relationships

Understanding and managing relationships between Configuration Items.

Overview​

CI Relationships map the connections and dependencies between different Configuration Items in your infrastructure.

Types of Relationships​

Network Relationships​

  • Connected To
  • Communicates With
  • Routes Through

Service Dependencies​

  • Depends On
  • Hosts
  • Uses

Organizational Relationships​

  • Managed By
  • Owned By
  • Located In

AI-Enhanced Relationships​

NopeSight uses AI to automatically discover and classify relationships:

  • Service identification
  • Dependency analysis
  • Impact assessment
  • Risk evaluation

Relationship Visualization​

Network View​

The default network view shows CI relationships as an interactive graph:

  • Central CI: The selected CI appears at the center
  • Connected CIs: Related items arranged around the central CI
  • Relationship Lines: Colored connections showing relationship types
  • Hide Functionality: Right-click any CI to hide it from the view

Application Dependency Mapping (ADM)​

The ADM view provides process-level visibility:

  • Process Discovery: Shows which processes communicate between servers
  • Interactive Exploration: Click on targets to discover listening processes
  • Process Chains: Visualizes complete communication paths (e.g., Exchange → lsass → Active Directory)
  • Focus Mode: Isolate specific process dependencies

To access ADM view:

  1. Navigate to CI Relationships
  2. Select "ADM" from the view mode toggle
  3. Click on process nodes to explore dependencies

Software View​

Shows software installations and dependencies:

  • Software families and applications
  • Installation relationships
  • Version information

Viewing Relationships​

  1. Navigate to a CI's detail page
  2. Click the "Relationships" tab
  3. Choose your preferred view mode:
    • Network: Traditional CI relationship graph
    • Software: Software-focused dependencies
    • ADM: Process-level application dependencies
  4. Use filters and search to find specific relationships

Managing Relationships​

Creating Relationships​

  • Manual creation through the UI
  • Automatic discovery via network scanning
  • AI-powered relationship discovery
  • Process-level discovery through ADM

Editing Relationships​

  • Update relationship metadata
  • Change relationship types
  • Add notes and documentation

Hiding CIs​

To temporarily remove a CI from the visualization:

  1. Right-click on any CI node
  2. Select "Hide" from the context menu
  3. The CI and its connections will be removed from view
  4. Hidden state persists during the session

IP Address Management​

NopeSight now provides enhanced IP address discovery:

  • Searches multiple IP fields including arrays and JSON structures
  • Automatically extracts IPs from network adapter summaries
  • Supports multi-homed servers with multiple interfaces
  • Migration script available to index existing IPs for faster searches