Managing CI lifecycles
The CI Lifecycles application helps you to manage the status of your configuration items.
Use the CI Lifecycles application to define one or more lifecycles and apply them to the types, or classifications, of configuration items in your environment.
- Lifecycle overview
A CI lifecycle can be described as the various stages in the life of a configuration item. - Creating a new lifecycle state
This topic describes how to create a new lifecycle state so that you can add it to one or more lifecycles. - Creating a lifecycle
Each configuration item (CIs) requires an associated lifecycle to govern the states the CI can enter and the rules by which it can move from one state to another. This topic describes how to create a CI lifecycle, assign a state or states to it, and designate the transitions from each state to one or more other states. - Duplicating a lifecycle
If you want to create a new lifecycle that is similar to an existing lifecycle, you can save time by starting from a duplicate of the existing lifecycle. - Applying a lifecycle to CI types
You can apply a lifecycle to one or many CI types. - Changing a CI lifecycle assignment
Changing a CI lifecycle assignment means applying a new CI lifecycle to a CI classification, deleting the assignment of a CI lifecycle to a CI classification, or changing the default lifecycle. In any of these cases, the status of some configuration items might be modified. - Changing the default lifecycle
If you change the default lifecycle being used by a large number of configuration items (CIs), the user interface can lock up. This happens if the current status of a large number of configuration items is being changed. - Modifying an existing lifecycle
This topic describes how you can modify the existing attributes of a lifecycle. - Deleting a state from a lifecycle
You can delete one or more states from a lifecycle. However, you cannot delete a state if there are any configuration items (CIs) in that state. - Deleting a lifecycle
You can delete a CI lifecycle, but only if there are no configuration items (CIs) in classifications to which that lifecycle has been applied. - Changing the CI lifecycle state
You can change the CI lifecycle state of a configuration item by modifying its status in the Configuration Items application.
Parent topic: Managing configuration items