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InformationSource

Defines different information sources in the case that different scanners update information for the same machine.

erDiagram
    InformationSource ||--o{ MachineSoftwareSignature : "InformationSourceID"
    InformationSource ||--o{ MachineUserSoftwareSignature : "InformationSourceID"
    InformationSource ||--o{ WmiInstance : "InformationSourceID"
    InformationSource ||--o{ WmiInstanceHistory : "InformationSourceID"

Fields

Field Type Description
ID numeric Internal ID for the InformationSource entity (Primary Key)
Name string Information source name
OctopusID string OctoSAM internal name for programmatic access to the information source (e.g., in queries)

Referenced by

Table Column Name Description
MachineSoftwareSignature InformationSourceID M:n relation between machines and software signatures
MachineUserSoftwareSignature InformationSourceID M:n relation between MachineUser and SoftwareSignature for per user signatures
WmiInstance InformationSourceID Each entity is an instance of a class scanned on a particular machine
WmiInstanceHistory InformationSourceID Each entity is an instance of a class scanned in a particular MachineUserHistory context. This table together with WmiInstanceHistoryProperty holds historized WMI data for each scan. See WmiInstance for description of the columns.