Why did you adopt and integrate a configuration management database into your IT environment? Is it to ensure that all assets and their configurations are known and accounted for? Improve your understanding of the relationship between assets? Aid your risk evaluation and change implementation processes or support effective event incident management? Whatever your CMDB objectives, Tanium can help you achieve them. Tanium offers tools and functions that enrich data repositories like CMDB.
All-round IT Asset Visibility
One of the key features of Tanium system management software is full visibility into endpoint or IT environment. With Tanium IT operators and asset managers have an up-to-date picture of all known and unknown assets connected to the company's network from devices to users, software, and hardware. This level of control - the ability to see everything and do anything across endpoints - changes the way operators approach IT operations – from how they solve basic problems around patching to how effectively they respond to security threats. Also, complete visibility allows for accurate information on assets. This information can be fed to the CMBD and used to make better decisions.
Asset Inventory and Monitoring
Most fast-growing organizations find it challenging to keep track of their IT assets, necessitating the adoption of a CMDB. To ensure that the CMDB has updated information, Tanium continuously monitors assets within the environment, with each endpoint acting as an individual sensor. With consistent visibility into managed and unmanaged devices, Tanium provides a current, accurate inventory of hardware and software assets.
Incident response and management
Incidents are unwanted and unplanned interruptions that reduce the quality of an IT service that can lead to problems if they occur repeatedly with the same symptoms. A primary CMDB objective is to provide valuable facts that can be used to enhance incident and problem management activities. Not only does Tanium provide an incident response function, but it also ensures that CMDBs are effective in this regard.
Hidden Assets Discovery
Due to the inefficiencies of most conventional discovery and inventory tools that provide information to the CMDB, all assets in the organization's network may not be accounted for. Most of these tools are blind to many devices and asset details, and cannot even identify everything they find. This is where Tanium plays a crucial role. Tanium tools can discover and identify all hidden assets thought distributed scanning and continual monitoring.
Improves Change Management
Change is never easy even in an IT world. The implementation and deployment of change often puts an organization at risk and can lead to service outages that have negative impacts. Tanium can help mitigate these impacts by providing a current view of the relationships and dependencies between assets and feeding this data to the CMDB. Thus enabling managers to anticipate which users, systems, software, and configuration items could be affected by an upcoming change and implement necessary tactics.
Conclusion
The importance of a configuration management system like CMDB to an enterprise cannot be overstated. CMDB benefits exceed mere data storage to include the discovery, control, and tracking of the relationships between IT assets, their individual configurations and providing accurate and current information about IT assets that can influence crucial decision-making processes. Therefore a CMDB must be up-to-date, thus the need for Tanium. Tanium offers a proven platform for endpoint visibility and control that transforms how organizations manage their computing devices with unparalleled speed and agility.
