CA's Management
Database (MDB): The
EITM Foundation
- WO108SN
Abstract
- An integrated Management Database (MDB) is an
important foundation for achieving effective
Enterprise IT Management, this session describes
what CA’s MDB is and the value it provides.
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CA’s Vision
Business Processes
IT Services
Application Environments
Users
Assets
Manage and Secure
Unify
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Simplify
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Enterprise IT
Management (EITM) is
CA’s vision for how to
unify and simplify
the management of
enterprise-wide IT
EITM – Unify and Simplify It All
Business Processes
Manage and Secure
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Storage Management
Assets
Security Management
Users
Enterprise Systems Management
Application Environments
Business Service Optimization
IT Services
Agenda
-All about the MDB
-Deployment topics
-Support for standards
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The Problem – In General
- Too many databases
- Complex to manage
- Require lots of labor
- Capital under-utilized
- Vulnerable infrastructure
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The Problem – Disparate Management Data
- Too many versions of the truth
- If you don’t know what you have, how can it be managed
Service
Data
Operations
Data
Storage
Data
Life Cycle
Data
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Security
Data
Benefits of CA’s Solutions
- CA solutions provide comprehensive, integrated, modular
and real-time solutions to:
- Manage risk
- Improve service
- Control costs
- Align IT investments with business needs
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Built on CA’s Integration Platform
- The CA Integration Platform is the foundation made up of
a set of shared services providing tight integration:
- Consistent user experience
- Integrated data
- Integrated processes and workflows
- Common policy
- The CA Integration Platform also contains a rich set of
management and security services that deliver consistent
definition and behavior
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CA’s EITM Integration Platform
ESM
Security
Storage
BSO
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Integration Platform
WSDM
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WS-Man
MDB
Event
Workflow
Rules &
Policy
SAML
SMI-S
Identity &
Access Discovery
Messaging
App
Server
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OMA-DM WS-CIM
Agents
Modeling
…
Schedule
…
UI
Services
…
MDB: A Management Service
- Full spectrum of management data
- Integration at the data level
- Flexible deployment options
- Management for high performance
- Support for open standards and best practices
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The Value of Data
Integration
Full Spectrum of Management Data
- Assets and inventory
- Business processes
- Events
Policy/
Rules
- Organization/people
Service
- Policy/rules
Business
Processes
- Schedules/workflows
- Service
Organization/
People
Events
Software
Configurations
Assets
Schedules/
Workflows
- Software configurations
- Internal management data
Product
Settings
- Management metadata
- Product settings
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Management
metadata
Increased Visibility
- Requires single source of IT management data
- Speeds decision making
- Enables automation
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Management Intelligence
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Eliminates Redundancy
- Reduces maintenance and administration
- Integrates at the source
- Results in fewer data errors
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Extensible Definitions
- Customers and third parties can extend schema
- Allows integration beyond CA products
- Enables sharing of data
- Removes redundancy and keeps data synchronized
- Eases administration
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MDB Data Access Options
- Data transformer
- Moves data between MDB and other systems
- Basis for hub and spoke deployment option
- Supports XML as data source or target
- Example: UAPM import of SMS data
- Formal Object Interfaces
- Delivered with some products
- Enable integration at a higher level
- Ex: NSM Worldview API, ServiceAware for Service Desk
- Custom data integration
- Programmatic access to read and write the MDB directly
- Native SQL, ODBC, JDBC available
- Reporting and Data Mining
- Data stored in a relational database management system
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Deployment Options
A Single MDB
- Applications share a MDB
- More applications provide richer data
- Little integration required
Service
Operations
Storage
MDB
Life
Cycle
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Security
Multiple MDBs
- Uses more than one MDB
- Integration may be required
- Product specific
- Distributed query
- Replication
Service
Service
Operations
Storage
MDB
MDB
Life
Cycle
Security
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MDB
External Product Integration
- Integrates data from external and 3rd party sources
- Provides data from the MDB for use in other
applications/products
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Common
Services
Common
Services
Common
Services
Common
Services
Common
Services
Previous
CA
Versions
Mainframe
IBM Tivoli
HP
OpenView
Others
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Relational Databases Supported
- Ingres r3
- SQL Server 2000
- SQL Server 2005
- Oracle 10g Release 2
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Database Server Requirements
- Enterprise utilization and access
- Disaster recovery planning required
- Cluster support for high performance
- 64-bit enabled
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Security and Availability
- Single schema eases security
- RDBMS integrates with OS security
- Online or offline backup
- BrightStor ARCserve
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Standards
MDB and ITIL
- CA products used to implement ITIL processes store data
in the MDB
The ITIL Process Model
Business, Customers, Users
Service
Desk
Incident
Management
Problem
Management
Network,
System,
DB &
Operations
Managements
Change
Management
Availability
Management
Capacity
Management
Release
Management
Customer
Relationship
Managements
Configuration
Management
Security
Managements
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Service Level
Management
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Financial
Management
IT Service
Continuity
Management
MDB versus CMDB
- The MDB stores information about assets and
configuration items such as: incidents, problem, change
orders, capacity, finance, current state and a great deal
more
- Can be used to support CMDB requirements
- Does not provide federated CMDB capabilities
- In general, is not a CMDB
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The MDB and DMTF/CIM
- CA has belonged to DMTF since inception
- Network and system management portions of MDB schema
were designed based on early releases of CIM
- MDB & CIM are not the same thing
- MDB is a complete definition of the management
information required by CA products.
- MDB is a relational database
- Common Information Model (CIM) provides a vendor
independent abstraction layer defined as an object model
- CIM interfaces to the MDB are being considered for the future
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Summary
The MDB Management Service helps to:
- Manage risk
- Ensure security and data availability
- Help meet corporate compliance / governance requirements.
- Support open standards and best practices
- Improve service
- Manage availability and performance of the infrastructure
- Real time data, not warehoused
- Flexible deployment options
- Control costs
- Optimizing IT assets due to improved visibility to data
- Easy to deploy
- Less management required
- Align IT investments with business needs
- Make informed management decisions
- Determine real cost of IT
- Ensure effective utilization of staff and resources
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