Comments on: Developing Your CMDB – Where to Start? http://blog.evergreensys.com/2007/08/21/developing-your-cmdb-where-to-start/ News and notes about ITIL®, CMDB and "real world" IT solutions. ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark and a Registered Community Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce and is Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trade Mark Office. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:46:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: SOA Infrastructure Blog http://blog.evergreensys.com/2007/08/21/developing-your-cmdb-where-to-start/#comment-4735 SOA Infrastructure Blog Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:41:21 +0000 http://blog.evergreensys.com/2007/08/21/developing-your-cmdb-where-to-start/#comment-4735 <strong>I Feel So Bloated</strong> No, I'm not having a fat day. I'm just exhausted from talking with people who are trying to boil the ocean in order to cook a couple of fish for dinner. A question came up yesterday about the tight coupling between CMDB's, Reg/Rep, and SOA Managemen... I Feel So Bloated

No, I’m not having a fat day. I’m just exhausted from talking with people who are trying to boil the ocean in order to cook a couple of fish for dinner. A question came up yesterday about the tight coupling between CMDB’s, Reg/Rep, and SOA Managemen…

]]> By: Brendan Martin http://blog.evergreensys.com/2007/08/21/developing-your-cmdb-where-to-start/#comment-4 Brendan Martin Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:48:31 +0000 http://blog.evergreensys.com/2007/08/21/developing-your-cmdb-where-to-start/#comment-4 Yes, 100% agreed, you need to start at the beginning. If you dont have a full view of your inventory you will need to run autodiscovery tools and dump the contents to a data base. You then need to look at what other CI's are required to enable you to better manage your infrastructure. You may need a monitoring systems that is capable of the Mapping and Visualization (which provides the ability to illustrate logically and physically the hierarchical and peer-to-peer relationships between CIs.) as stated above. An agent based reporting system to get a bit more granular in terms of the configuration of your machines or VM's. These and many other features are essential to the begginnings of any CMDB. If your looking for a quick start check out the VM Guest downloads at www.cmdb.info , There are some demo screenshots as well. Under open source many of these challenges have been undertaken and the software tools that resulted are great. Well worth a look. Brendan Martin Yes, 100% agreed, you need to start at the beginning. If you dont have a full view of your inventory you will need to run autodiscovery tools and dump the contents to a data base. You then need to look at what other CI’s are required to enable you to better manage your infrastructure. You may need a monitoring systems that is capable of the Mapping and Visualization (which provides the ability to illustrate logically and physically the hierarchical and peer-to-peer relationships between CIs.) as stated above. An agent based reporting system to get a bit more granular in terms of the configuration of your machines or VM’s.

These and many other features are essential to the begginnings of any CMDB.

If your looking for a quick start check out the VM Guest downloads at http://www.cmdb.info , There are some demo screenshots as well. Under open source many of these challenges have been undertaken and the software tools that resulted are great.

Well worth a look.

Brendan Martin

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