CIS-SM: Certified Implementation Specialist – Service Mapping

Datasource precedence rules assign priorities among authorized data sources when multiple sources can update the same table or table attributes, preventing lower-priority sources from overwriting higher-priority updates.

Shazzam cluster support is the setting that distributes Shazzam (port-scan) processing among multiple MID Servers in a cluster. When it is disabled, a single MID Server performs the port scan, while the load-balanced cluster can use all three MID Servers for classification work.

cat outputs the contents of the file named by its path to standard output.

A report on an extended parent table includes records defined directly on that table and records from its child tables. Therefore, Server records and descendant server-class records, including Windows Server, Linux Server, and UNIX Server, are included; records from ancestor classes are not.

Service Mapping verifies whether the hosting device already exists in the CMDB and triggers Discovery to identify and add the host only if it does not exist. An existing discovered host is therefore not rediscovered as part of this process.