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.