Administrating your CMDB

In the System Administration module of vFire Core, there are several aspects of functionality that you can set up to monitor and maintain a robust CMDB.

You can configure your Configuration Management Database (CMDB), by:

• Configuring the CMDB Settings – includes enabling auditing and object version control for CMDB items.
• Setting and definng CMDB Item Types – includes configuring sub types (or classes) to define all the levels in a multi-tiered CMDB.
• Setting and defining CMDB Item Link Types – to maintain the integrity of the CMDB by defining the way in which CMDB Items can be linked.

You can also use vFire Core to track and manage the availability of all CMDB entities, by:

• Activating the availability functionality, and configuring it so that notifications will be sent when thresholds and escalations levels are breached
• Creating outage types, which can then be used to raise and view outages
• Defining availability schedules which can then be applied to items within the CMDB to track availability

Finally, you can monitor the depreciation of your assets, by:

• Creating depreciation schedules
• Defining the parameters for methods of depreciation
• Linking the schedules and methods to CMDB Item Types
• Creating and defining batch run parameters for each depreciation schedule

You can then view a log of all the batch runs.