Track - CMDB (Configuration Management Database)

CMDB Federation Overview

Vince Kowalski, BMC

Marv Waschke, CA

Most IT organizations have a mix of tools and heterogeneous data models. Integrating some of the data would enable more reliable and efficient management processes, but it is impractical to attempt to convert existing investment to a single data model or repository. A DMTF working group has been formed to develop a standard for federating resource data in heterogeneous repositories. This session provides the motivation for the specification, the use cases that are driving the work, the architecture, the data model, a brief description of the services, and the current status. This is the first of three sessions describing the CMDB Federation specification and related implementation work.

CMDB Federation Technical Description

Mark W Johnson, IBM

Marv Waschke, CA

This session will describe the CMDB Federation specification in technical detail and walk through some examples. The content will describe how to federate repositories, organize data for federation, use the service interfaces, construct queries, and use queries to navigate graphs of items connected by relationships. This is the second of three sessions describing the CMDB Federation specification and related implementation work.

CMDB Federation Demonstration

Mark W Johnson, IBM

Dave Snelling, Fujitsu

This session will demonstrate federation of a number of management data repositories, each a different implementation, using the CMDB Federation specification. The federation will result in an aggregate view of the IT environment that is a union of the knowledge in the repositories, including reconciling together resource identities, and querying federated data in place in each repository. An open source sample implementation and tooling will also be shown. This is the third of three sessions describing the CMDB Federation specification and related implementation work.