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KB0832083

Slow performance in relationship formatter with large number of orphan relationships


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Description

1. Large numbers of orphan CI relationships can lead to slowdowns when rendering the relationship formatter for a CI. Orphans may be present from Discovery or other CMDB population events. Additionally an instance may be using the relationship exclusion filters to remove many relationships. The exact details are instance and deployment specific.

2. PRB1390753/KB0824597 in Orlando Patch 3 / New York Patch 9 fixed an issue where an incomplete list of L2 relationships were displaying on the relationship formatter, but may be causing excess database transactions to fetch all relationships at levels 2 and above.

Steps to Reproduce

There are no known steps to reproduce as this is a complex instance specific problem.

Workaround

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1. Disable Filtering “Excluded Relations” from Relationship Formatter: By default, Relationship Formatter excludes all the relationships specified in “cmdb_rel_filter” table. However, this can in some cases result in more DB queries being done to fetch the data for Relationship Formatter, impacting performance. In order to disable this, system property glide.cmdb.relation.filter can be set to false.

2. Another workaround to prevent the issue is to set the system property glide.ui.max_relations to 100 or 200, changing its default higher value 1000, and to set the default relation levels to 1 or 2.

  1. Create a new “User Preference” record to manage the default number of relationship levels fetched.
  2. Go to left nav -> User Preference -> New
  3. Fill out the form per the attached screenshot
  4. Set the depth value to 1 or 2 as needed
  5. Save
  6. Example:


If there is a large number of orphan relationships, contact Technical Support for them to be found and removed from the database via an internal script.



Related Problem: PRB1412232

Potentially Seen In

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Fixed In

New York Patch 11
Orlando Patch 9
Paris Patch 2
Quebec

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