This series of posts is going to be a slight departure from normal in that it won't be showing you any code. We are going through the process of designing a CMDB (that's a Configuration Management Database) to hold details for all the systems (500+) that we administer. The point of this post is to, by means of an example, show you the sort of questions you should be asking yourself when you put together a CMDB.So let's start with a description of...
