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Object-Oriented Configuration Item Modeling

Object-Oriented Configuration Item Modeling

An intelligent design enables the user to easily add and modify Configuration Items (CI's) and CI Relationships to any desired scope and degree of granularity and to keep pace with changes in their infrastructure. The dynamic and object-oriented architecture allows a high degree of flexibility when modeling the configuration of your IT infrastructure. CIs and CI Relationships and can be created by users without any developer support. No SQL or XML knowledge is required, as modeling is fully User Interface driven. Meta data attribute properties extend the schema and add code level functionality.

Hierarchical Inheritance Structure

Inheritance on several levels makes it easy to manage and maintain CIs and their relationships. Inheritance is also a prerequisite for dynamic ways of viewing and finding CIs and a mechanism for the creation of new CI Types and CI Relationships without the need of a developer. New CI Types are after all often merely more specific CI Types or a refinement of an existing CI Type.

    The CI Type inheritance structure has several important benefits:
  • Redundancies can be eliminated
  • Consolidated Views across CIs are possible
  • CI Types are simpler and easy to maintain
    FireScope CMDB distinguishes several inheritance levels:
  • CI's inherit more general attributes from their parent while specifying their own unique attributes.
  • CI's inherit relationships between CIs, which allows the dynamic and fluid management of relationships between people, hardware, components, software, services, organizational units and departments and many more.
  • CI derived types inherit the interface customizations defined for their parents, for example the ordering of the fields, the arrangement of the field layout on screen or other types of controls.
  • CI's are organized in an inheritance tree by degree of specification. One CI Type may inherit from multiple parents.

    • Associations and Mapping

    CI Relationships are in fact specialized Configuration Items and just like CI's they may have attributes that qualify the association and provide useful information. Just like CIs, CI Relationships can be integrated with Notifications and Alerts.

      Both Explorer and Mind Mapping views available to visualize the data object dependencies. Configuration items can be organized in 2 trees:
    • The structural or advanced tree, which follows the structure if the IT organisation.
    • The shortcut or basic tree, which allows you to flexibly model your organizational structure.

     

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