Database View: view_metadata_collation

This view is one of a suite of related views used to provide metadata information to the User Interface (UI). The suite includes:

1. view_clouds_with_metadata_info
2. view_clouds_with_metadata_names
3. view_groups_with_metadata_info
4. view_groups_with_metadata_names
5. view_metadata_collation

The view_metadata_collation is used to present a stream of VM contextualization metadata files in the correct order for the cloud’s metadata service. It creates a customized list of metadata files in priority order for each group/cloud. Only enabled metadata files are included and each group/cloud can exclude specific group metadata files from their customized list by file name (see group_metadata_exclusions under the csv2_group_metadata_exclusions table description)).

Columns:

• group_name (String(32)):

  Is the name of the group owning the metadata file.

• cloud_name (String(32)):

  Is the name of the target cloud to which this metadata file applies.

• type (String(5)):

  Is the name of the source for this metadata file. Files can be defined at the ‘group’ level or at the ‘cloud’ level.

• priority (Integer):

  Is the priority associated with this metadata file.

• metadata_name (String(64)):

  Is the name of the metadata file.

• mime_type (String(128)):

  Is the mime type of this metadata file.