What Happens to CIs When IT Assets Are Decommissioned? A CMDB Best Practices Guide
TLDR
- Decommissioning a CI changes its lifecycle status to retired without removing the record or its history
- Deleting a CI
Change Impact Analysis with CMDB: How to Assess Risk Before Every IT Change
- Change-related incidents cause the majority of IT outages, often because teams lack visibility into downstream CI dependencies before a change
How to Use CMDB Service Maps to Identify Stakeholders and Approval Paths for IT Changes
- Missing the right stakeholder in a change approval workflow is one of the most common causes of change-related incidents and
How Does Virima Support ITIL Change Management? CMDB, Impact Analysis, and ViVID Explained
Virima 6.1.1 is an ITIL v4-compliant change management platform that uses live CMDB data and ViVID Service Maps to deliver …
How Does Virima Handle Software License Tracking and Compliance? A Complete ITAM Guide
TLDR: Virima 6.1.1 tracks software license keys in ITAM, links them to installed software instances and hardware CIs via …
IPAM and CMDB Together: Why Managing IP Addresses Inside Your Configuration Database Changes Everything
Managing IP addresses in a standalone IPAM tool creates a persistent reconciliation gap with your CMDB. Virima 6.1.1 includes native …
ITIL v4 SACM Explained: What Service Asset and Configuration Management Means for Your CMDB and Service Delivery
TLDR: SACM is the ITIL v4 practice that governs how service assets and configuration items are identified, controlled, verified, and …
CMDB Implementation: A Step-by-Step Guide
Most CMDB implementations don’t fail because of a bad tool choice. They fail because the foundational decisions were wrong before …
