Federated CMDB Vision

Abstract :

This paper is vision of CMDB that is federated from multiple management data repository, and also providing the basis system of specification that will be set as standard when the federation is enabled.

Introduction :

As an emerging prominent technology for enterprise Management Software, the usefulness of the CMDB is depend on the the quality, reliability and security of the data repository. The data from multiple sources needs to be managed directly or by reference in commercial CMDBs. From this point we can defined the purpose of this paper. Actually the paper will describe about the various data from multiple sources will be federated in to CMDB.

This diagram below can describe about this kind of purposes.

the Role of CMDB

Problem Statement :

The Goal of federating data sometimes is not compete properly, because of the various data and the scattered data repository are not well integrated. The standardization of Management Data Repository in order to plug their data into federating data scheme is not well defined yet. This problem is common happened in both side, while the vendor trying to integrated multiple CMDBs, the customer also having problem to integrated data from multiple vendors MDRs.

The Purpose :

The purpose of this paper is to describe how such data from multiple sources will be federated into a CMDB. The concepts and terms set forth here will provide the basis for industry-wide specifications to be subsequently written and proposed as formal standards.

The Solution :

ITIL®-based Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) are emerging as a prominent technology for Enterprise Management Software. The usefulness of these CMDBs is dependent on the quality, reliability and security of the data stored in them. A CMDB often contains data about managed resources like computer systems and application software, process artifacts like incident and change records, and relationships among them. The CMDB serves as a point of integration between IT management processes (as in Figure 1 below). Data from multiple sources needs to be managed directly or by reference in commercial CMDBs. This paper having approacing solution to handle the problem above that defined in steps as follow :

• Enable a variety data counsumer to access a federation of management data through a standard access interface.
• Enable a variety of data providers to participate in a federation of management data through a standard provider interface.
• Provide an approach for reconciling and combining different information about the same resources.

ITIL

IT Infrastructure Library

What is ITIL?

This is quite interesting topic in IT recently, because this is would be hot issue for the IT future. The term of ITIL is related to IT service management. This is kind of guidance to IT practitioner to manage the IT infrastructure more efficiency and effectively in order to achieve the business agility.

That is the rough definition, but even though the statement above not clear enough, i supposed that can be answered the small part from the whole picture of ITIL. It's better for the beginning we should know the history behind the ITIL and then from that point we can start to explore what is the exact definition of ITIL. Ok then, let says that our goal in this time is clear definition of ITIL.

Originally The ITIL concept emerged in the 1980s, when the British government determined that the level of IT service quality provided to them was not sufficient. So they ask The Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) to make it that problem more suitable for them. Then CCTA, now called the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), was tasked with developing a framework for efficient and financially responsible use of IT resources within the British government itself and the private sector.

The earliest version of ITIL was actually originally called GITIM, Government Information Technology Infrastructure Management. Obviously this was very different to the current ITIL, but conceptually very similar, focusing around service support and delivery.

After the new framework was launched, large companies and government agencies in Europe adopted this framework very quickly in the early 1990s. ITIL was spreading far and, and was used in both government and non-government organizations. As it grew in popularity, both in the UK and across the world, IT itself changed and evolved, and so did ITIL.

In year 2000, The CCTA merged into the OGC, Office for Government Commerce and in the same year, the giant software company, Microsoft used ITIL as the basis to develop their proprietary Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF). This is a sign that ITIL will be solid framework for IT service management for the future. In 2001, version 2 of ITIL was released. The Service Support and Service Delivery books were redeveloped into more concise usable volumes. Over the following few years it became, by far, the most widely used IT service management best practice approach in the world. In 2007 version 3 if ITIL was published. This adopted more of a life cycle approach to service management, with greater emphasis on IT business integration. Furthermore ITIL has become the de-facto standard in delivering IT Services for all types of organizations. Both government and non-government organizations benefit from the process driven approach regardless of the size of the IT department.

In this website www.itlibrary.org we can find closer definition about (ITIL) that defines as the organizational structure and skill requirements of an information technology organization and a set of standard operational management procedures and practices to allow the organization to manage an IT operation and associated infrastructure. The operational procedures and practices are supplier independent and apply to all aspects within the IT Infrastructure.

Basically, The IT Infrastructure Library, ITIL (®), is a series of documents that are used to aid the implementation of a framework for IT Service Management (ITSM). This framework defines how Service Management is applied within specific organizations. Being a framework, it is completely customisable for application within any type of business or organisation that has a reliance on IT infrastructure. (http://www.itil-itsm-world.com/)

As conclusion, from the definition above we can make it ITIL definition more shortest as a series of document to guidance for implementation framework ITSM for monitoring all IT- infrastructure (hardware, software, and human resources) and giving feedback to make it much better.

Starting Point

Starting Point

The best way that you want to understand some thing is just find the right definition. From the definition we can make nice structure of that "thing".

Advice from my guidance was described the wide perspective from the definition that you already have, starting from this view try to make it focus to the goal that you want to reach. Just make it your skeleton like "hurricane", this is will be easier to understand for everyone that read the article.

Let's we starting our own writing project, and happy writing. Good luck Buddy.