In today’s business environment, where many industries are struggling, it is essential for companies to keep tight control of their IT spend to ensure that it is optimized. Thus underscoring the need for an effective asset lifecycle management. Configuration management databases or CMDBs assist asset managers in keeping an eye on various assets and configuration items from the operational to retired stages. With Tanium, you can be sure that your CMDB provides accurate information on the phases of assets for better decision-making. Here are some reasons why Tanium is essential in your CMDB lifecycle management
A complete view of all assets
To say that it is crucial for the CMDB to provide complete visibility of all assets for proper management is an understatement. If CMBD data is incorrect, it can cost chaos and wastefulness, particularly if they are used to make business decisions. For instance, uniformed decisions may result in buying software upgrades for 8000 computers, when there are only 5,000 and sending a repair technician to fix a “down” server which was retired last month. This is one of the reasons your company needs Tanium. Tanium offers an accurate picture of all managed and unmanaged assets, where they are, how they are configured, and the relationships that exist between them and feeds this information to the CMDB.
Status or lifecycle stage of assets
A service asset or CI typically follows a fairly predictable lifecycle, starting as “Operational” and ending as “Retired – signifying the beginning and the end of a configuration item lifecycle. Items such as printers, laptops, and a network switch can represent a CI. It is essential that your CMDB contains up-to-date data on the current status of all CIs to prevent poorly informed decisions and improve business value. Tanium ensures your CMDB is updated.
Discover Hidden Assets
Traditional IT discovery tools are often blind to the details of many assets in an organization, and can’t identify everything they find. As a result, they provide the CMDB with outdated data. Tanium asset discovery and inventory tools, on the other hand, are effective in discovering hidden assets – assets organizations were not aware existed in their environment - and provide a complete inventory. Another reason to opt for Tanium. After all, you can only keep track of what you know exists.
Collects Data Consistently
With Tanium solution, you can continuously monitor assets within your IT environment, using each endpoint as an individual sensor. By maintaining consistent visibility into managed and unmanaged devices, Tanium allows you to know the current state of your hardware and software assets across the environment and empowers your CMDB with this information.
Enhances Change Management
Change deployments are a prominent source of risk for many organizations. If a deployed change leads to service outage managers, usually initiate emergency protocols to revert back to a stable and functional environment. But with Tanium, change managers can visualize and understand the association between assets in the environment and anticipate which users, systems, software, and those configuration items could be affected by an upcoming change, thereby reducing the risk of outages or downtime.
Provides a Unified Asset Environment
Most traditional asset discovery and inventory tools are fragmented, require multiple point solutions, and overburden network connections. Whereas, Tanium leverages an architecture with a single point and unified platform that ensures the visibility, control and inventory of all organizational assets.
Conclusion
Undoubtedly, CMDB is crucial in asset lifecycle management. However, a CMDB is only valuable if it is up to date and provides accurate data. Tanium boosts CMDB asset management capabilities by ensuring a complete view of assets, both managed, unmanaged and hidden, providing a current update on the status and real-time data and improving change management via a unified platform.
