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Enterprise CMDB

Are you storing information about your servers, laptops, and network equipment on spreadsheets or in a paper box?  Maybe you already have an CMDB, but it has a lot of issues and no one trusts it.

How do you even begin to get to an "enterprise-class" CMDB?  One that is powerful enough to manage the needs of your company and demands of users. This article will show you how and demonstrate some ideas make your journey a little bit easier.

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ITAM Asset Sync

In the new version of ServiceNow Asset Management, Assets are now in a separate table named Asset [alm_asset]. Prior to the Berlin release, assets were included in the Configuration Item [cmdb_ci] table. Removing assets from the cmdb_ci table provides more flexibility to build new features into the Asset Management application in the future and helps prevent the cmdb_ci table from growing too large.

There are a lot of advantages with two tables,  however the difficulty is to keep them in sync.  Here are a couple notes on for asset/ci synchronization:

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