International Business Machines Corporation

Akademia Medyczna Im. Piastow Slaskich We Wroclawiu

Ewa Kilar

Tomasz P Kania

Jaroslaw Jurowicz

Andrzej W Laskawiec

Wojciech A Wojcik

Ireneusz Calkosinski

Aleksander Pietkiewicz

Marek Bryjak

Anna Janocha

Tadeusz Sebzda

Tadeusz Trziszka

Maciej Siewinski

Agrawal Kumar Anil

Marian Grybos

Irena Choroszy- Krol

A verification check is performed for a configuration management database (CMDB) configuration item (CI), the CMDB CI being an information technology asset of a computing environment and being previously discovered as part of a CMDB CI discovery procedure for a CMDB system, and discovered on a hosting component hosting the CMDB CI. The discovery procedure provides configuration data associated with the CMDB CI, and the configuration data is stored as part of CMDB configuration information of the CMDB system. Performance of the verification check of the CMDB CI is tailored to the CMDB CI, and includes using the configuration data provided by the discovery procedure to target at least one inquiry to the hosting component, which may include an inquiry to the CMDB CI thereof. An updated status of the CMDB CI is determined based on performing the verification check.

Verifying configuration management database configuration items

Embodiments of the present invention provide automated systems and methods for selectively finding and deleting dormant data (out of data, inactive data) in a configuration management database (CMDB), or in a database which has similar characteristics. The method includes using a directed graph where each node of the directed graph represents a configuration item, and traversing the directed graph in order to determine inactive or dormant data, and all of the objects which depend on that data. Configuration items are deleted only when all of the other configuration items from which it depends contain dormant data.

Deleting configuration items in a configuration management database

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Cracow, Poland

Ewa Kilar