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  3. Section XVI. System Administration
  4. Managing Host Data Collection
  5. Determining host ranking

Determining host ranking

The user-specific host ranking table differs from the default ranking table, as it has a Domain ID column that enables Domain-specific ranking for hosts. You can override host ranking with a Null Domain ID; this becomes a system-wide override.

When determining the priority of a host, IT Analytics checks the ranking in the following order of priority:

  1. User host source rank with a Domain ID populated

  2. User host source rank with a Null Domain ID

  3. Default host source rank, as defined in the

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