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title: Operational Technology and CSDM elements
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# Operational Technology and CSDM elements

Terms related to managing business applications with elements of CSDM.

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Term

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Definition

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Equipment model

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The service records that describe how an industrial operation is organized to produce an output or product.

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Production process

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The relationships between equipment model entities and the various stages of the workflow from the raw material to finished goods.

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Site

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A 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.

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OT device \(site assignment\)

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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.

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OT device \(automates::automated\)

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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.

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Windows

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In 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.

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