{"product_id":"a-better-practices-guide-for-populating-a-cmdb-examples-of-it-configuration-management-for-the-computer-room-the-datacentre-and-the-cloud-paperback","title":"A Better Practices Guide for Populating a CMDB: Examples of IT Configuration Management for the Computer Room, the Datacentre and the Cloud - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGreg Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis guide is an in-depth look at what you should and should not include as configuration items in an IT Services model. Unlike many other books on this topic, this goes into deep technical detail and provides many examples. The first section covers some useful approaches for starting to populate a CMDB with high-level services. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e What is the least amount of work you can do and still have a valid CMDB? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What are some techniques that you can use to identify what business and technical services you should include? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Can anything be automated to work more efficiently? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e The second section covers three common in-house architectures: \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e LAMP stack applications \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Modern enterprise web applications \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Relational databases, with some brief notes about other forms of database \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e The final section details how to model applications delivered through the cloud, and what CI attributes can be useful to record. This section covers the three main types of cloud-delivered application: \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e Software as a service applications, using Google Apps as an example. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlatform as a service applications, using Google App Engine as an example \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInfrastructure as a service applications, using the Amazon and HP infrastructure. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e While this book was written to support customers using HP Service Manager, the content which is specific to HPSM is quite small and easily applicable to other ITIL \/ ITSM CMDB \/ CMS tools.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 68\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.14 x 7.99 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52493338771763,"sku":"9781506143026","price":28.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aGs1SC9Ta0pUM01JcHVTRVIraGM0QT09.webp?v=1759949921","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-better-practices-guide-for-populating-a-cmdb-examples-of-it-configuration-management-for-the-computer-room-the-datacentre-and-the-cloud-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}