CMDB and Data Foundations settings assessed in the CMDB success advisor
The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and Data Foundations settings review provides a configuration-level assessment of the CMDB configuration item (CI) classes for your principal classes to support data quality, life cycle management, and integration accuracy.
Settings overview
Each setting is checked for alignment with suggested business rules, reconciliation guidelines, and Data Manager policy coverage.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| CI creation from assets using IRE | Enables the automatic creation of a CI from an asset record using the CMDB Identification and Reconciliation Engine \(IRE\) for CI classes identified by serial number and without dependent relationships. Requires the relevant business rule to be active for CI creation to occur during asset insertion. |
| Review reconciliation rules | Evaluates whether reconciliation rules correctly assign attribute ownership to the authoritative integration source for each principal CI class. Helps prevent lower-quality integration sources from overwriting high-quality CI attribute data, maintaining accuracy and consistency across the CMDB. |
| CI classes missing managed by group | Shows principal CI classes that do not have a Managed by group field configured in CI Class Manager. Ownership data is critical for routing incidents, changes, and service requests to the correct team. |
| Review CMDB Data Manager policies | Assesses the configuration of CMDB Data Manager policies, including archive, attestation, certification, delete, and retire, for your principal classes. Each policy type manages a specific life cycle action:- Archive Archives inactive CIs without deleting them.
Validates CI data or runs automated checks.
Verifies CI data for accuracy and readiness.
Removes CIs based on defined criteria such as inactivity.
Marks CIs as retired when no longer in use. |
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