Clearing Up the Confusion of a CMDB
Butler Group Review Articles
Mike Thompson - Published 02/05/2008
Although the Configuration Management DataBase (CMDB) is defined as a database, this is in effect somewhat of a misnomer. The CMDB should only hold the relationships from other entities that are held within various data sources throughout the organisation. The CMDB is not a single database instance, but is best described as a meta-database.
