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There needs to be a common way to identify nodes such as location, group, business service, etc. The common attribute is assigned when the node is provisioned in NMIS. For example, if it's determined that all the nodes at the San Jose data center can be grouped into a single fault domain, then they should all have a the same location attribute of 'San_Jose_Data_Center'. This gives opEvents something to grip onto for correlation.
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