A CMDB Foundation
Provance IT Asset Management for Microsoft® System Center strongly supports your adoption of proven industry best practice frameworks such as ITIL®(Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF).
An effective IT Asset Management
program is an essential prerequisite for Configuration Management
Database (CMDB) implementation. Provance IT Asset Management for
Microsoft System Center is
aligned with ITIL and MOF and lets you establish the critical
foundation required for CMDB deployment.
As a Management Data Repository (MDR), Provance provides
essential asset data to your federated CMDB.
Configuration Management and Asset Management
Your Configuration Management process
manages Configuration Items (CIs) and the CMDB. As well, the people
and technologies that support Configuration Management ensure that
the CMDB contributes to IT Service Management initiatives with a
complete, comprehensive and consolidated set of data. As
implied by ITIL, Asset Management is core to your Configuration
Management strategy.
Creating the Essential Foundation for Your CMDB
ITIL makes several fundamental assumptions about IT asset data:
- That organizations have access to, and processes in place to collect and manage all the required asset information;
- That they know the operational status of their assets; and
- That they have all this information organized and maintained in a comprehensive, centralized and up-to-date database.
Provance IT Asset Management for Microsoft System Center provides you with timely and accurate asset details that are essential for the successful implementation of your CMDB, and allows you to establish and maintain the required processes for asset information collection and management.
CMDB Ready
Provance IT Asset Management for Microsoft System Center maintains your IT asset data in a CMDB-ready format. The Provance Asset Registry is structured with both predefined and user-configurable Configuration Item and Work Item data entities. "CMDB ready" formatting means that you can readily adopt Provance as an MDR providing data to your federated CMDB.