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What is CMDB

Chapter 255
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
Configuration Management DataBase, the key repository in ITIL for items to be serviced. The individual items are known as CI, Configuration Items. The CMDB can be supported by specialized or general software. Some items can be retrieved automatically via automated networked IT services information collection, e.g. using the SNMP protocol.
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IT Service Management Architectures
Torben Tambo (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Jacob Filtenborg (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch255
Abstract
IT service providers tend to view their services as quasi-embedded in the client organisations infrastructure. Therefore, IT service providers lack a full picture of being an organisation with its own enterprise archicture. By systematically developing an enterprise architecture using the unification operating model, IT service providers can much more efficient develop relevant service catalogues with connected reporting services related to SLA's and KPI's based on ITIL and newer frameworks like SIAM.
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