CMDB
Know every asset. See every dependency.
A Configuration Management Database that gives you a complete, real-time map of your IT assets, their relationships, and dependencies — the foundation for confident change.
Overview
A living map of your IT estate
Most outages trace back to a change someone made without knowing what it would touch. Applaude CMDB solves that by maintaining a continuously updated inventory of servers, applications, network devices, and cloud resources — and, critically, the relationships between them.
Auto-discovery keeps the inventory honest without manual data entry, dependency mapping turns it into a graph you can actually reason about, and configuration history shows you exactly what changed and when. Connected to Servicedesk and VAPT, it becomes the single source of truth for your whole IT operation.
Capabilities
What CMDB does for you
Auto-Discovery & Inventory
Continuous discovery of servers, applications, network devices, and cloud resources — no manual spreadsheets.
Dependency Mapping
Model the relationships between configuration items and visualise how services actually fit together.
Impact Analysis
Before a change or during an outage, see the full blast radius — every system and service affected.
Configuration History
A complete timeline of configuration changes per asset, for troubleshooting and audit alike.
CI Relationship Graph
Browse the estate as a live graph — from a business service down to the VM and datastore it runs on.
Suite Integration
Feeds Servicedesk impact analysis and VAPT asset-aware scanning out of the box.
Better Together
Part of an integrated suite
Servicedesk
Incidents and changes link to configuration items, so responders see dependencies the moment a ticket opens.
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The vulnerability scanner reads the CMDB inventory — new assets are scanned automatically, nothing is missed.
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Frequently asked questions
What is a CMDB?
A configuration management database (CMDB) is a repository of your IT assets — called configuration items — and the relationships between them. It answers questions like "what runs on this server?" and "what breaks if this switch goes down?" Applaude CMDB keeps this map current automatically.
How does auto-discovery work?
Discovery runs on a schedule against your network ranges and cloud accounts, identifying assets and reading their configuration. Newly found assets are added to the inventory and flagged for review, and existing records are refreshed — so the CMDB reflects reality, not last year's spreadsheet.
How does a CMDB improve change management?
Every change request in Servicedesk can reference the configuration items it touches. The CMDB shows the dependencies of those items, so approvers see the real impact of a change before it happens — dramatically reducing change-related outages.
Can the CMDB drive vulnerability scanning?
Yes. Applaude VAPT uses the CMDB inventory as its scan scope. When discovery finds a new server or cloud resource, it enters the next scan cycle automatically — closing the gap where unknown assets go untested.
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