CA joins management vendors' CMDB standard efforts

By Denise Dubie, NetworkWorld.com, 04/20/06

On the heels of competitors, CA announced this week the company would join forces with BMC, Fujitsu, HP and IBM to hammer out a standard method for management and other systems to share configuration data.

CA joins the vendors that last week announced they would work toward developing "an industry standard for federating and accessing IT information" that would ideally integrate communication between disparate configuration management databases (CMDB).

CMDBs, as defined by ITIL, hold all details related to the components of an IT infrastructure, including information about servers, storage devices, networks, middleware, applications and data.

The vendors say a standard way for tools to share and access configuration data will enable customer organizations to use their CMDBs to create a more complete and accurate view of IT information spread out across multiple data sources.

"CMDBs have become one of central elements of enterprise IT management, so a standards-based approach to this critical functionality is necessary and valuable," Helge Scheil, chief architect, Business Service Optimization business unit at CA, said in a press release.

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