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Operational Technology and CSDM elements

Terms related to managing business applications with elements of CSDM.

TermDefinition
Equipment modelThe service records that describe how an industrial operation is organized to produce an output or product.
Production processThe relationships between equipment model entities and the various stages of the workflow from the raw material to finished goods.
SiteA parent equipment model entity record that has no parent. This is a special equipment model entity record because it is used to assign read or write level access to the OT devices assigned to the site.
OT device \(site assignment\)The site assignment is needed for role-based security \(RBAC\) of OT devices. This is implemented as a choice list reference field on the OT Device Details \(cmdb\_ot\_entity\) table portion of the OT device record because an OT device can belong to only one site.
OT device \(automates::automated\)The automates::automated by relationship describes how the OT device is related to the production process, which could include more than one equipment model entity.
WindowsIn both OT and IT networks, the Windows server is represented in the cmdb\_ci\_win\_server server. Additionally, the Windows server in the OT network has a reference in the cmdb\_ci\_win\_server.cmdb\_ot\_entity field pointing to a record in the cmdb\_ot\_entity table that describes its function in OT and other OT characteristics like Purdue Level, site, and so on.

Parent Topic:Implementing the CSDM framework for Operational Technology