When Rational Asset Manager creates an asset from a CCMDB CI, that asset is a remote asset, which stores meta information, such as attributes and categories, and contains a link to the CI in CCMDB. Similarly, the user can navigate to the asset in Rational Asset Manager from the CI in CCMDB. The remote asset in Rational Asset Manager is a reference to a remote resource and is managed in a remote repository.
When CCMDB creates CIs from Rational Asset Manager assets, information is stored in the CI that indicates that the asset originated in Rational Asset Manager. If you synchronize the Rational Asset Manager repository with the CCMDB repository and create a remote asset from the CCMDB CI, the remote asset and the original asset become related assets: the original asset has the "publish as" relationship to the remote asset, and the remote asset has the relationship "publish by" to the original asset.
Remote assets in the Rational Asset Manager repository retain much of the metadata from the CCMDB CI. They are also given the asset type "Configuration Item" and the category "CCMDB," which can be used as filters to quickly search for remote assets in the Rational Asset Manager repository.
For CCMDB to create CIs from Rational Asset Manager assets, CCMDB must configure the Rational Asset Manager repository as a definitive library. A definitive library is a storage location in which approved versions of all software CIs are securely stored. A definitive library can also contain items related to the software, such as licenses and documentation. For more information, see the topics in this section on configuring Rational Asset Manager as a definitive library.