Configuration Items

Overview

Extracted from CMDBf.org...

CMDBs give IT organizations complete visibility into the attributes, relationships, and dependencies of the components in their enterprise computing environments. An industry standard for federating and accessing IT information will integrate communication between IT management tools. With a standard way for vendors and tools to share and access configuration data, organizations can use their CMDBs to create a more complete and accurate view of IT information spread out across multiple data sources. This makes it easier to keep track of changes to an IT environment, such as the last time an application was updated or changes to critical configuration information. It also helps organizations better understand the impact of changes they make to the IT environment.

The draft specification, CMDBf v1.0b (pdf), defines query and registration web services for interaction between a federating CMDB and an MDR, based on HTTP, SOAP, WSDL, XML Schema, and Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) standards.

See CMDBf Data Model for XML version of data model.

References

• Take a look at BPMspace for ITIL. There is an open source CMDB included here as well as an example schema
• Demystifying the CMDB

Links

• http://forums.datamation.com/service-management/820-how-design-itil-cmdb-schema.html
• http://www.itsmcommunity.org/resources/whitepaper/establishing_a_cmdb_schema_ndash_a_working_model/
• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/itsolutions/ecommerce/maintain/operate/configmg.mspx?mfr=true
• http://www.hdaa.com.au/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=35
• http://www.freshpatents.com/Cmdb-schema-dt20060105ptan20060004875.php
• http://www.freshpatents.com/Cmdb-schema-dt20060105ptan20060004875.php?type=description
• http://tooh.blogspot.com/2006/10/cmdb-schema.html
• http://tooh.blogspot.com/search/label/cmdb
• http://www.jcmartin.org/2006/06/06/1149633693075.html
• http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-4451
• http://www.dcml.org/
• http://www.w3.org/RDF/
• http://www.onecmdb.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
• http://www.cmdbuild.org/
• http://cmdbf.org/
• http://www.download.com/ProcessWorx-CMDB/3000-2654_4-10530843.html
• http://www.networkcomputing.com/channels/netsysmanagement/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177104921
• http://www.itilcommunity.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1363
• http://www.spyfu.com/Term.aspx?t=328491
• http://glossopian.co.uk/pmwiki.php?n=Main.CMDBSchema
• http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci1205631,00.html?bucket=NEWS&topic=308969
• http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nsm/2005/1114nsm1.html
• http://www.itskeptic.org/node/81

• http://www.itlibrary.org/index.php?page=Configuration_Management
• http://pyars.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html <<<<<<<<<<< Ah Ha!!!
• http://www.mediarecovery.com/hot_topics/aperture_vista.php
• http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/networking/guide/archives/snmp-and-itil-and-the-cmdb-8329
• http://mrpurpleduck.wordpress.com/category/rails-cmdb/
• http://www.itilworx.com/articles/itw.0604.htm
• http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1331914.1331928&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE
• http://www.knowledgestorm.co.uk/search/keyword/ksuk/Configuration%20Management%20Database%20England/DirectSSkw/Configuration%20Management%20Database%20England
• http://www.vizzit.com/Wonacott_column4.aspx
• http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/category/cmdb

Google Search

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=CMDB+Schema&hl=en&pwst=1&start=30&sa=N

Documents

• AMS_CMS_Database_Schema.pdf
• IAC-EA-SIG_Aug5.ppt - Reference Models (Taxonomies) For IT Investment Management
• CMDB-Federation-white-paper-vision-v1.0.pdf
• CMDB_Relationship_Diagram.pdf
• Establishing a CMDB Schema - A Working Model (pdf)
• Frontrange CMDB whitepaper (pdf)

BMC

• EMA_BMC-Atrium_CMDB_SCP.pdf
• BMC Atrium CMDB2.1.00 CDM Diagram (Visio)

Products

Commercial

• http://www.sunviewsoftware.com/products/cmdb.aspx
• http://itsm.frontrange.com/microform.aspx?fid=6295