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Do you separate your asset database and CMDB? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by charlotte_starhive@lemmy.world to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
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Hi, I can't seem to find if there's a consensus on this so asking here.

Not all CIs are assets and not all assets are CIs. But many assets and CIs are the same physical or virtual thing.

I see some vendors (e.g. ServiceNow, Freshservice) have separate asset databases and CMDBs. and other (e.g. Jira Service Management) have a combined database.

Do you have any preference one way or the other? Are there pros and cons to do it a certain way? To me it seems like maintaining two databases is more fiddly and time consuming but I don't know.

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[–] charlotte_starhive@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for sharing. And agree, never thought about needing to separate them out later but definitely easier to split rather than combine