Strategic IT management presupposes free access to information on the individual structures, relationships, and technical details of relevant IT components. The quality of a quick decision relies on how reliable, complete, and up-to-date the accessible information is.
Configuration management allows for the management of infrastructure data and its individual properties in a central configuration management database (CMDB). The data is maintained in a structured form based on configuration items. It is collected and analyzed from a wide variety of sources and IT systems. The underlying concept strictly follows the guidelines of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
A solution that is able to do all of this needs to guarantee comparability – automatically if possible – which is achieved by normalizing the incoming data.
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Configuration Management
Efficiently manage your IT with configuration management
Automation and normalization
Its integrated configuration management functionality allows theGuard! CMDB to automatically collect data through its integration with external sources and its implicit discovery feature. This integrated feature of theGuard! uses standard protocols like SNMP, WMI, or WBEM to ensure agentless discovery. Important applications are integrated through interfaces that were developed specifically for this purpose. It is also possible to manually enter and maintain data whenever needed.
Discovered objects are automatically assigned to different groups, automating the entire data structuring process. Users can freely determine the attributes based on which an object is assigned to a certain group, making it significantly easier for them to structure the data.
Using normalization, the information on a wide variety of different devices and systems can be easily compared. This principle of storing information in normalized form is an essential prerequisite for the comparability of data in a CMDB. Integration of asset and inventory dataAsset and inventory management is a subdiscipline of configuration management and manages the IT resources used throughout a company. A CMDB takes this a step further by identifying the relationships between individual configuration items. A change history is maintained to log the version-related status changes of the different configuration items. What configuration management can do for you
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