CMDB
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A configuration management database (CMDB) is a unified or federated repository of information related to all the components of an information system. It helps an organization to understand the relationships between these components and track their configuration. The CMDB is a fundamental component of an ITIL framework.
The CMDB records configuration items (CI) and details about the important relationships between CIs. A configuration item is an instance of an entity that has configurable attributes: for example a computer, a process or an employee. A key success factor in implementing a CMDB is the ability to automatically discover information about the CIs (auto-discovery), and track changes as they happen.
CMDBs contain metadata, and thus the concept overlaps with that of a metadata repository—both are used in running large IT organizations. Configuration management addresses how the data is to be kept up to date, which has historically been a weakness of metadata repositories.
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- Trendmap for CMDB
- Del.icio.us community [bookmarks tagged with CMDB
- Level of interest about CMDB on the internet according to Google
[edit] Components for software/hardware/network configuration management
- ZENmetrics, an agentless software component for collecting and integrating CMDB data with 3rd party and bespoke applications.
[edit] CMDB vendors
- FrontRange Configuration Management
- Mercury Universal CMDB
- Managed Objects CMDB 360
- Tideway Foundation Application Dependency Mapping for CMDB
- BMC Software - Atrium CMDB 2.0
- EMC CMDB - Smarts ADM
- CA CMDB Product Solution
- Interlink Software
- OneCMDB an open-source CMDB implementation in Java
- IBM Tivoli Change & Configuration Management Database
- Escape-K an open-source CMDB written in Java using the Eclipse platform
- Service-now.com On-Demand CMDB and integrated asset and service managementde:Configuration Management Database
