Top ServiceNow Competitors in 2026: Alternatives Compared
ServiceNow’s platform footprint changed materially in 2025. Its acquisition of Armis brought agentless discovery for IoT, OT, and unmanaged devices …
NetApp, Arista, and Aruba Discovery: Auto-Populate Your CMDB from Network and Storage Infrastructure
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Network switches and storage arrays are the most common CMDB gaps in enterprise IT. NetApp ONTAP supports SNMP and …
How to Automatically Import and Discover AWS, Azure, and Intune Assets into Your CMDB
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Cloud assets do not automatically appear in your CMDB. API-based discovery must be configured per cloud provider, scheduled to …
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 …
Does Virima Include IP Address Management (IPAM)? How IPAM and CMDB Work Together
TLDR: Virima 6.1.1 includes native IPAM within the CMDB. Discovery automatically correlates discovered IP addresses to CIs, subnet records link …
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 …
AWS Lambda, App Runner, and Batch in CMDB: Why Serverless Assets Need Configuration Management Too
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Serverless does not mean infrastructure-free. AWS Lambda functions, App Runner services, and Batch compute environments are configuration items with …
How to Discover and Map Pure Storage FlashArray in Your CMDB
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Pure Storage FlashArray arrays rarely appear in CMDBs because most discovery tools treat storage as out-of-scope. Automated SSH or …
