How to disable Auditing of CMDB relationship changes such as "IP Connection" - Support and Troubleshooting

How to disable Auditing of CMDB relationship changes such as "IP Connection" Summary In sys_audit, you may see entries for various cmdb (configuration management database) tables where the "Field name" is not an actual field on the table (or any table). One example is "IP (internet protocol) Connection". "IP Connection" is associated with a particular cmdb relationship type, and the IP Connection relationship changes are created by Discovery. A customer may ask for information on how to prevent these changes from being audited.

Instructions Out of box, there are no features to disable auditing of a certain type of relationship (cmdb_rel_type)

The CI Relationship audit is done by "Audit Relationship Changes" Business Rule (the one against cmb_rel_ci)

Customers can customize the Business rule to prevent auditing for certain relationship types. Ex:

1. Add a Custom Property to define which relationship types to exclude from audit. Ex: name = cmdb.relationship_audit.exclude value =

In this case, we need the sys_id for cmdb_rel_type "IP Connection::IP Connection"

2. Edit the "Audit Relationship Changes" BR

3. Change the script... FROM: new RelationshipAuditor().audit(current, sys_action);

TO: var excludedRelTypes = gs.getProperty('cmdb.relationship_audit.exclude', ''); var curType = current.type + ''; if (excludedRelTypes.indexOf(curType) == -1) new RelationshipAuditor().audit(current, sys_action);