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Do you often associate terms like complex and cumbersome with a configuration management database (CMDB)? Get a modern, user-friendly visual CMDB experience with Virima that will change the way you think about CMDB. It is designed under the ITILⓇ framework but also offers many options for automation and flexible configuration management processes.
Virima CMDB transforms your service delivery by leveraging automated discovery to populate and maintain accurate configuration data. Get insightful CMDB visualizations of asset relationships, service dependencies, and availability status with intuitive dashboards and ViVID Services Maps.
Inaccurate data is the number one reason CMDB efforts fail and reliance on too many manual processes is usually the culprit. Virima CMDB solves this through intelligent automation that begins with discovery and includes granular business rules to eliminate the tedious tasks of CMDB maintenance.
CMDB accuracy is important but how the data becomes “operationalized” means the difference between simple configuration knowledge and truly actionable intelligence. Virima CMDB connects the IT dots for easily consumed data and less guesswork for fueling fast, reliable and sound decisions.
A trustworthy CMDB is foundational to almost every aspect of modern IT organizations from IT Ops, DevOps, IT SecOps, finance and compliance. Whether linking Virima CMDB with Virima’s own ITAM, ITSM and ITOM features or leveraging with other solutions, accurate data and actionable insights deliver immeasurable value to organizations of all sizes.
As you would expect with any advanced configuration management database, Virima CMDB is your single source of truth for all hardware and software asset information. This includes hardware configurations, operating system details, installed software and patches, locations, ownership, contracts, SLA’s, CI updates and so much more.
What really sets Virima CMDB apart is how Virima Discovery machine-learned relationship and interdependency maps are presented in the Virima Visual Impact Display (ViVID). ViVID not only provides a clear visual representation of every asset’s relationships, but when linked to Virima ITSM or supported 3rd party platforms and NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD), Virima CMDB becomes your go-to place for change planning, incident response and vulnerability remediation prioritization.
Leverage Virima CMDB to:
A CMDB plays many important roles in improving your IT processes including Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM), Change, Incident and Problem Management, IT Asset Management, vulnerability and risk management, audit and compliance reporting.
Some major features of Virima CMDB include:
The value of Configuration Management Database (CMDB) software is undisputed when carefully implemented and maintained with a clear plan in place on how it should be leveraged.
Below is a list of six steps to ensure the success of your CMDB implementation and to get the maximum value from your configuration management activities:
Virima’s configuration management automation for hybrid IT environments ensures your C-suite, ITOps, DevOps, SecOps, and GRC stakeholders gain the critical insights needed to make informed and timely decisions. Best of all, Virima’s intelligent CMDB automation capabilities are SaaS delivered and available for an extremely low total cost of ownership. Nothing beats Virima’s value!
Virima CMBD which includes Virima’s Visual Impact Display (ViVID) enhances your control over the asset relationships, service dependencies, and availability statuses. We hand the power to the C-suite by backing up their decision making with powerful insights. Virima is a trustworthy partner for time-efficient and accurate CMDB and service mapping solutions.
A CMDB (configuration management database) is a data repository that stores information about your IT ecosystem. This includes hardware and software assets, also known as configuration items. These are the components that are used to deliver IT services. A true CMDB also depicts relationships between assets and the IT services they support as well as who is responsible for supporting the asset and who benefits from use of the asset.
A configuration item is generally anything that is subject to a change control process. It can be a physical device such as a server or installed software like an IIS website. A CI could also be an aggregation of both hardware and software. Assets generally not considered CI’s are things like peripherals (i.e. a mouse or monitor) hardware components like a CPU. Each CI is designated for configuration management and treated as a single entity in the configuration management process.
CMDBs are used to keep track of the state of assets in real time and the relationship between all assets including the major applications and services they support. A CMDB helps an organization understand the relationship between the components of a system and to track their configurations. The maintenance of this information allows for certain actions to occur at any point in time. CMDBs can also be used for things like impact analysis, root cause analysis, or change management.
A CMDB helps change managers understand the impact of making a requested change to a CI could have on other CI’s including the applications and services they support. CMDB’s that do a good job of visualizing these relationships vastly assist in the decision making process to allow the change to occur as planned or require additional safeguards. A CMDB also tracks a CI’s configuration changes over time which can be useful if a change needs to be rolled back or to demonstrate that proper change procedures were followed.
Automated discovery automatically generates and updates data to capture the condition of the current IT environment. The discovery tools like Virima IT Discovery enables your IT team to take a more hands-off approach to configuration management. When integrated with Virima CMDB, the tool offers agentless IP-based scanning of both your on-premise and cloud environments to automatically detect thousands of physical and virtual assets.
Automation is the answer to simplifying your CMDB maintenance, including initial mapping and ongoing population updates. Leverage discovery tools like Virima IT Discovery to populate and maintain the database with accurate data. A CMDB without discovery can be very cumbersome, so it is wise to implement discovery as soon as you can.
With an integrated CMDB like Virima, you can link all or selected Configuration Management data and Business Service Maps with external CMDBs such as ServiceNow, Ivanti and Cherwell. You can also get support for other integrations, including monitoring, alerting, vulnerability warranty, and event management systems.
The accuracy of a CMDB depends on the data you have provided. A true, visual CMDB will track hundreds of hardware and software configuration attributes to provide insightful CMDB visualizations comprising data and relationships. There are many input options for CMDBs and each option comes with a potential for error. Manual inputs and spreadsheet data often leads to data sets with inaccurate information. Third-party discovery tools integrated with commercial CMDBs often help in keeping the CMDB data accurate and up-to-date as it transforms scanned data to easily consumed visualizations.
When it comes to evaluating change management software, Virima sets the bar for flexibility, breadth of features, ease of use, and outstanding value. It truly puts you in control
Do you feel like CMDB (configuration management database) is a puzzle you can’t solve because there’s no automatic way to build and maintain it?
Virima can tell you more things about more IT assets with greater accuracy than ever imagined and present the info in a variety of powerful, dynamic visualizations and reports.
