Analyze the dependencies between IT assets, assess the impact of changes and prevent issues that threaten service continuity.
In an IT infrastructure, every component is part of an ecosystem of interconnected resources and services. Understanding these relationships is essential to assess the consequences of a failure, plan a change or identify the causes of an outage.
CMDBuild is not just an inventory. It lets you represent and analyze the relationships between the items in the CMDB, providing a complete view of dependencies and supporting impact analysis, troubleshooting and change management.
Tailor-made relationships
Relationship types are part of the data model and are defined to fit your needs:
Any relationship type
Each organization defines the links it needs, for example "hosts", "is located in", "is assigned to".
One or many links
Each relationship type can link a card to just one other card or to many (one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many cardinality).
Relationship data
Relationships can have their own data too, such as a contact person's role or the color of the cable connecting two devices.
In everyday work
From an asset's card, operators can:
See all the card's relationships
Link a card by picking it from a list
Create a link by filling in a reference field
Edit or delete existing links
Jump to the linked card with one click
View relationships graphically
To see at a glance what depends on what, see the dependency tree. Relationships are also kept in the change history, so you can reconstruct how assets were linked in the past.
Learn more in the online documentation