🗂️ CMDB

Term Glossary

• CI

  Configuration Item — a thing you manage.
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• CI Class

  The type of a CI (table it lives on).
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• Relationship

  How two CIs are connected.
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• Discovery

  Agentless scan that populates the CMDB.
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• CSDM

  Common Service Data Model.
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• Identification Rule

  How Discovery decides 'is this CI new or existing?'.
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• Reconciliation Rule

  Which data source can write which fields.
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• Service Map

  Top-down dependency map of a business service.
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• Affected CI

  CI linked to a task as impacted.
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• Health Dashboard

  Out-of-box CMDB completeness/correctness KPIs.
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• Pattern

  Discovery's modern probe definition.
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• Business Service

  What the business consumes (e.g. 'Email').
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• Technical Service

  What IT delivers (e.g. 'Exchange').
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• Dependency View

  Interactive CI relationship visualizer.
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• MID Server Capability

  Tag declaring what a MID can do.
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