CMDB: What you Need to Know For IT Operations Management

Michael Johnson

Description

A configuration management database (CMDB) is a repository of information related to all the components of an information system.

It contains the details of the configuration items (CI) in the IT infrastructure. Although repositories similar to CMDBs have been used by IT departments for many years, the term CMDB stems from ITIL. In the ITIL context, a CMDB represents the authorized configuration of the significant components of the IT environment.

A CMDB helps an organization understand the relationships between these components and track their configuration. The CMDB is a fundamental component of the ITIL framework's Configuration Management process. CMDB implementations often involve federation, the inclusion of data into the CMDB from other sources, such as Asset Management, in such a way that the source of the data retains control of the data.

This book is your ultimate resource for CMDB. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about CMDB right away, covering: Configuration management, Information system, Configuration item, Information Technology Infrastructure Library, Configuration Management (ITSM), Extract, transform, load, Metadata, Configuration management database, BMC Software, CA Technologies, Fujitsu, HP Software Division, IBM, Microsoft, Distributed Management Task Force, Visual CMDB, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, IBM Tivoli Configuration and Change Management Database, Active database, ADO.NET, ADO.NET data provider, AllegroGraph, Altibase, Animation database, Database application, ArchiveGrid, Associative Entities, Autocommit, Back-end database, BigTable, Binary large object, BioSearch, BrandZ, Brapci, Canada GE3LS, Centralized database, Centralised Information Service for Complementary Medicine, Checkpoint restart, China Economic Databases, Clinical data repository, CLSQL, Collection database, Commitment ordering, The History of Commitment Ordering, Comparison of ADO and ADO.NET, Comparison of database access, Comparison of OLAP Servers, Comparison of structured storage software, Comprehensive Microbial Resource, ConceptBase, Concurrency control, Connection string, Consensus CDS Project, Covers, Titles, and Tables: Anthologies and The Formations of American Literary Canons, Crystallographic database, CSQL, CSQL Cache, Current database, Current Index to Statistics, DAD-IS, Data administration, Data Composite, Data Description Specifications, Data event, Data item, Data masking, Data pack, Data pool, Data redundancy, Data store, Data system, Database, Database audit, Database caching, Database connection, Dbclient, Java Database Connectivity, Database Deployment Manager, Database design, Database forensics, Database management system, Database Marketing Agency, Database normalization, Database publishing, Database Source Name, Database storage structures, Database virtualization, Datasource, DBMail IMAP and POP3 server, Declarative Referential Integrity, Deductive language, Devgems Data Modeler, DEX (Graph database), DeZign for Databases, Diablo Data Systems, Digital curation, Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland, Directory (databases), Distributed concurrency control, Distributed database, Domain relational calculus, DUAL table, Dynamo (storage system), Dynaset, EJB QL, Elasticity (data store), Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID), Endgame tablebase, Enterprise database management, Entity-attribute-value model, ER/Studio, ERROL, ESPRID, Event condition action, Federation of International Trade Associations, FlockDB, Fluidinfo ...and much more

This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of CMDB. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of CMDB with the objectivity of experienced IT professionals.

Sujets

• Computers
• Informatique

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781743044421
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 24 Mo

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Contents

Articles Configuration management Information system Configuration item Information Technology Infrastructure Library Configuration Management (ITSM) Extract, transform, load Metadata Configuration management database BMC Software CA Technologies Fujitsu HP Software Division IBM Microsoft Distributed Management Task Force Visual CMDB ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus IBM Tivoli Configuration and Change Management Database Active database ADO.NET ADO.NET data provider AllegroGraph Altibase Animation database Database application ArchiveGrid Associative Entities Autocommit Back-end database BigTable Binary large object bioSearch BrandZ Brapci

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3 Canada GE LS Centralized database Centralised Information Service for Complementary Medicine Checkpoint restart China Economic Databases Clinical data repository CLSQL Collection database Commitment ordering The History of Commitment Ordering Comparison of ADO and ADO.NET Comparison of database access Comparison of OLAP Servers Comparison of structured storage software Comprehensive Microbial Resource ConceptBase Concurrency control Connection string Consensus CDS Project Covers, Titles, and Tables: Anthologies and The Formations of American Literary Canons Crystallographic database CSQL CSQL Cache Current database Current Index to Statistics DAD-IS Data administration Data Composite Data Description Specifications Data event Data item Data masking Data pack Data pool Data redundancy Data store Data system Database

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Database audit Database caching Database connection Dbclient Java Database Connectivity Database Deployment Manager Database design Database forensics Database management system Database Marketing Agency Database normalization Database publishing Database Source Name Database storage structures Database virtualization Datasource DBMail IMAP and POP3 server Declarative Referential Integrity Deductive language Devgems Data Modeler DEX (Graph database) DeZign for Databases Diablo Data Systems Digital curation Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland

Directory (databases) Distributed concurrency control Distributed database Domain relational calculus DUAL table Dynamo (storage system) Dynaset EJB QL Elasticity (data store) Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) Endgame tablebase Enterprise database management Entity-attribute-value model

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ER/Studio ERROL ESPRID Event condition action Federation of International Trade Associations FlockDB Fluidinfo Foreign key Geodatabase Glass databases

Global concurrency control Global serializability GlobalTrade.net Graph database Halloween Problem Hierarchical database model HIV Drug Resistance Database IBM Lotus Notes Identity column

Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource Index (database) Index Copernicus Index locking IndexMaster Information schema InfoTrac INP (database) Integrated Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System

Integrated test facility Intelligent Database International Genealogical Index International Protein Index International Shark Attack File International Thylacine Specimen Database iODBC JANUS clinical trial data repository Kennisbank Filosofie Nederland List of academic databases and search engines

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Load file Lock (database) Locks with ordered sharing Log shipping Lossless-Join Decomposition Materials database Metadatabase Mindnet Mobile database

Modular concurrency control Modular serializability MultiValue National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging Native Queries Neo4j Network model (database) Object Data Management Group Data access layer Object-relational impedance mismatch Object-relational mapping Odaba ODBC driver OLE DB OLE DB provider OneKey Online analytical processing Online complex processing Online transaction processing Open Database Connectivity OpenInsight OpenLink ODBC Drivers Oxford English Corpus Philosophy Documentation Center eCollection Physician Data Query PIDBA: The Paleoindian Database of the Americas POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials Polymorphic association Probabilistic database

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Query by Example Range query Real time database Recordset REDIAL Regional Data Exchange System Materialized view Synonym (database) Relational database Relational model Relvar Remote Data Objects Result set Rocket U2 RRDtool Rulecore Schema matching SchemaBank SEDAT Semi-structured model Serializability Serializability theory Set domain Simple Sloppy Semantic Database Single-instance storage Smart variables

Snapshot isolation Sones GraphDB Source (International Information Support Centre) Spatial database Spindling Springer Protocols SQLJ SQuirreL SQL Client Plugin API SSTable Statistical database Strong strict two-phase locking Structured Query Language Interface

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Sublanguage Superbase database Suppliers and Parts database Talx Technical Information Project Termcap Terminfo Terminology model The Work Number Toad Data Modeler Torah database Transaction processing Transaction server Transactions per second Trigger list Triplestore Two-phase locking Universal IR Evaluation Universal relation assumption unixODBC User-defined function Variable data publishing Versant Object Database Virtual Laboratory Voter database Weak entity XLDB XML database YAGO (ontology)

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Configuration management

Configuration management

Configuration management(CM) is a field of management that focuses on establishing and maintaining consistency of a system or product's performance and its functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational [1] information throughout its life.

For information assurance, CM can be defined as the management of security features and assurances through control of changes made to hardware, software, firmware, documentation, test, test fixtures, and test Top level Configuration Management Activity model documentation throughout the life [2] cycle of an information system. CM for information assurance, sometimes referred to asSecureConfigurationManagement, relies upon performance, functional, and physical attributes of IT platforms and products and their environments to determine the appropriate security features and assurances that are used to measure a system configuration state.

For example, configuration requirements may be different for a network firewall that functions as part of an organization's Internet boundary versus one that functions as an internal local network firewall.

History Configuration management was first developed by the United States Air Force for the Department of Defense in the 1950s as a technical management discipline of hardware. The concepts of this discipline have been widely adopted by numerous technical management functions, including systems engineering (SE), integrated logistics support (ILS), Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), ISO 9000, Prince2 project management methodology, COBIT, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), product lifecycle management, and application lifecycle management. Many of these functions and models have redefined configuration management from its traditional holistic approach to technical management. Some treat configuration management as being similar to a librarian activity, and break out change control or change management as a separate or stand alone discipline. However the bottomline is and always shall be Traceability.

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Configuration management

Software configuration management The traditional software configuration management (SCM) process is looked upon by practitioners as the best solution to handling changes in software projects. It identifies the functional and physical attributes of software at various points in time, and performs systematic control of changes to the identified attributes for the purpose of maintaining software integrity and traceability throughout the software development life cycle. The SCM process further defines the need to trace changes, and the ability to verify that the final delivered software has all of the planned enhancements that are supposed to be included in the release. It identifies four procedures that must be defined for each software project to ensure that a sound SCM process is implemented. They are: 1. Configuration identification 2. Configuration control 3. Configuration status accounting 4. Configuration audits These terms and definitions change from standard to standard, but are essentially the same.  Configuration identification is the process of identifying the attributes that define every aspect of a configuration item. A configuration item is a product (hardware and/or software) that has an end-user purpose. These attributes are recorded in configuration documentation and baselined. Baselining an attribute forces formal configuration change control processes to be effected in the event that these attributes are changed.  Configuration change control is a set of processes and approval stages required to change a configuration item's attributes and to re-baseline them.  Configuration status accounting is the ability to record and report on the configuration baselines associated with each configuration item at any moment of time.  Configuration audits are broken into functional and physical configuration audits. They occur either at delivery or at the moment of effecting the change. A functional configuration audit ensures that functional and performance attributes of a configuration item are achieved, while a physical configuration audit ensures that a configuration item is installed in accordance with the requirements of its detailed design documentation. Configuration management is widely used by many military organizations to manage the technical aspects of any complex systems, such as weapon systems, vehicles, and information systems. The discipline combines the capability aspects that these systems provide an organization with the issues of management of change to these systems over time. [3] Outside of the military, CM is appropriate to a wide range of fields and industry and commercial sectors.

Computer hardware configuration management Computer hardware configuration management is the process of creating and maintaining an up-to-date record of all the components of the infrastructure, including related documentation. Its purpose is to show what makes up the infrastructure and illustrate the physical locations and links between each item, which are known as configuration items. Computer hardware configuration goes beyond the recording of computer hardware for the purpose of asset management, although it can be used to maintain asset information. The extra value provided is the rich source of support information that it provides to all interested parties. This information is typically stored together in a configuration management database (CMDB). This concept was introduced by ITIL. The scope of configuration management is assumed to include, at a minimum, all configuration items used in the provision of live, operational services. Computer hardware configuration management provides direct control over information technology (IT) assets and improves the ability of the service provider to deliver quality IT services in an economical and effective manner.

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