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CMDB Federation announces
industry-wide specification for sharing data
ConvergenceAsia staff
22/08/2007
The CMDB Federation (CMDBf)
working group has announced it has drafted an industry-wide specification
for sharing information between Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs)
and other management data repositories (MDRs), such as asset management
systems and service desks.
The specification, which the group plans to submit as a standard, is
intended to enable organisations to federate and access information from
complex, multi-vendor IT infrastructures. Founded in April 2006, the CMDBf
consists of industry leaders BMC Software, CA, Fujitsu Limited, HP, IBM and
Microsoft.
An industry standard for federating and accessing IT information will
integrate communication between IT management tools. With a standard way for
vendors and tools to share and access configuration data, organisations can
use their CMDBs to create a more complete and accurate view of IT
information spread out across multiple data sources.
The draft specification defines query and registration web services for
interaction between a federating CMDB and an MDR, based on HTTP, SOAP, WSDL,
XML Schema, and Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) standards.
A federating CMDB can access data from a participating MDR using the query
service defined in the specification and implemented by the MDR. A client of
a federating CMDB can also use the query service to extract data from
another federating CMDB, making it possible for a CMDB to hierarchically
federate with othso er federating CMDBs. An MDR can also export data to a
CMDB that has implemented a registration service.
Earlier this year, the group published a white paper to describe how data
from multiple sources will be federated into a CMDB. The specification and
white paper are available at
http://cmdbf.org/. |
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