A Configuration Management Database (CMDB) allows managing Configuration Items (CIs) including identifying, recording, maintaining, controlling, and reporting. CMDB collects and stores the following items as configuration records:

A Configuration Management Database (CMDB) allows managing Configuration Items (CIs) including identifying, recording, maintaining, controlling, and reporting. CMDB collects and stores the following items as configuration records:

• Configuration Items, such as IT Services and their components required for service delivery;
• CI Types, determining CI business logic and the set of various attributes
• CI Relationships, specifying types of interactions, and dependencies between CIs. Follow the CI Relationship link to learn more. 

CMDB records, therefore, describe your CIs with their Relationships, types of dependencies, and various characteristics.

The Service Model visualizes CIs and their relationships with a Dependency Map view, which demonstrates CIs current statuses and interactions.

CI Type

IT Services are considered as Configuration Items in the SimpleOne solution, along with the constituent components required for proper service delivery. The CI Type specifies a set of the CI attributes, its place, and hierarchical position on the Service Model structure.

To identify your CI either as an IT Service or as a custom CI, at first, determine your CIs diversity with the CI Types list.

Add a new CI Type

To create a new CI Type, follow the steps below:

• Navigate to CMDB → CI Types, and push the New button. 
• Fill in the Name field with the required value.
• Push the Save or Save and Exit button.

A created CI Type is added to the end of the list. Since each CI Type defines the hierarchical level of the Service Dependency Map, creating a new one results in adding the next lower level of this model.

Configuration Item

Create, identify, configure, and manage your CIs and their parameters with the records in the list of the Configuration Items. These records keep all detailed information such as CI Type, set of attributes with their values, and lists with the related records.

To identify your CI as an IT Service or as its component, use the CI Type and the record fields. A set of these fields is different for an IT Service and CIs of another type, except for the general description fields.

Add a new CI

To add a new Configuration Item, navigate to the CMDB → Configuration Items menu and push the New button. Fill in the CI record form with the fields below:

Field

Description

Number

This field is populated automatically and contains a record number.

Name

A configuration item name.

CI Type

Primary IT Service

Specify an IT Service to be delivered, selecting it from the list of the CI Items with an IT Service type value.

Serial Number

Enter a serial number of your CI device.

IP Address

Enter the IP number of your configuration device if it has one.

DNS

Enter the DNS address of your CI if necessary.

Location

Define the CI location selecting it from the Location list.

Description

Contains all the necessary information details.

Owned by

Assign a responsible person from the Users list as a CI Owner.

State

Select one of the two possible values:

• Active

• Inactive.

Operational State

Determines an IT Service availability with the following possible statuses:

• Available - a proper level of service delivery is provided.

• Degraded - a quality of service delivery does not correspond to the engaged requirements.

• Unavailable - a CI is entirely unavailable.

• Maintenance - a CI is not available due to maintenance activities.

Click Save or Save and Exit to apply changes.

Related Lists:

• ITSM Event - a list of ITSM Events related to this CI
• Incident - a list of Incidents that are related to the CI
• Problem - all the related problems
• Change Request - all the related Change Requests
• Request - all the Requests related to a current CI
• Approval - all the related Approvals
• Related CI - a list of CIs which have this CI as a Primary IT Service
• Child Service - all the Services whose Master Service is this CI
• Incoming CMDB Relationship - all the relationships with the CI as a Recipient
• Outgoing CMDB Relationship - all the relationships with this CI as a Source
• Internal Service Specification - all the internal Service Specifications bound to the CI
• External Service Specification - all the external ones bound to this CI.

To extend your SimpleOne CMDB structure, use the CMDB Extension with Table Inheritance features.

• Configuration Items, such as IT Services and their components required for service delivery.
• CMDB Class Types, determining CI business logic and the set of various attributes.
• CI Relationships, specifying types of interactions, and dependencies between CIs. Follow the CI Relationship link to learn more. 

CMDB records, therefore, describe your CIs with their relationships, types of dependencies, and various characteristics.

The Service Model visualizes CIs and their relationships with a Dependency Map view, which demonstrates CIs current statuses and interactions.

CMDB Class Type

In the SimpleOne solution, IT Services are considered as Configuration Items, along with the constituent components required for proper service delivery. The CMDB Class Type specifies a set of the CI attributes, its place, and hierarchical position on the Service Model structure.

To identify your CI either as an IT Service or as a custom CI, at first, determine your CIs diversity with the CMDB Class Type list.

To create a new CI Type, follow the steps below:

• Navigate to CMDB → CI Types, and push the New button. 
• Fill in the Name field.
• Click the Save or Save and Exit to apply changes.

Created CMDB Class Type appears at the start of the list. Since each Class Type defines the hierarchical level of the Service Dependency Map, creating a new one results in adding the next lower level of the model.

Configuration Item

Create, identify, configure, and manage your CIs and their parameters with the records in the list of the Configuration Items (sys_cmdb_ci) table. These records keep all detailed information such as CI Type, set of attributes with their values, and lists with the related records.

To add a new configuration item, please complete the steps below:

1. Navigate to the CMDB → Configuration Items.
2. Click New and fill in the fields.
3. Click Save or Save and Exit to apply changes.

There are two ways to extend the CMDB structure:

• CMDB extension with table inheritance.
• CMDB extension with classes and models.