You can carry out some tasks relating to CMDB items using the options in the Explorer pane. The following options are available, access to some of which depend on the settings in your security role.
| Agreements | to view all the agreements where the entity, person or contract is specified in the agreement selection criteria |
| Availability | to view or set Availability Settings for the CMDB Item |
| Impact Criteria | to specify the criteria that will be used to apply an outage to a CMDB item when one or more CMDB items impacting this item are currently experiencing an outage |
| CMDB Item Report | to view the details of a CMDB Item such as a Service or Configuration Item in report format |
| Clone | to create new CMDB items based on the currently displayed one |
| Object | to attach objects or files from Windows applications to the current CMDB item |
| Attributes | to type data into categories set up in the Administration module |
| Forms | to capture general, non-reportable, non-searchable information about the entity |
| Audit | to view an audit trail of the changes made to the details of the entity on screen |
| Version History | to view the history for the CMDB item |
| Depreciation | to view the depreciation information for the current CMDB Item |
| Linking | to view a graphical view of the other CMDB items which are linked to the CMDB item |
| Components | to view a graphical view of the components for a container CMDB item |
| Call Search | to display the Call Search window, where you can view all open calls logged against the CMDB item |
| Request Search | to view open requests for the CMDB item |
| External Resources | to view external resources such as directory server users linked to the current CMDB item |
| Discrepancy Reports | to view outstanding CMDB Resource Reports (reports to be reviewed) linked to the entity |