Micro Focus Universal Discovery & Universal CMDB (UD/UCMDB) Reviews

MF uCMDB is one of the best in the industry. It can store up to 60 million CI's & all its relationships. The discovery module supports wider ranger of technologies.

Real time discovery of Docker Swarm is included & uCMDB is the only tool today to have this features.

Larger environment can be support with multiple discovery distribution points, which can be a low end PC's. this make the discovery process move dynamic & real time.

The latest version of uCMDB has an auto learning capability & groups all unidentified software, which the administrator can check & decide, it it needs to be added the repository for future discovery.

One of the unique feature is The Automated Service Modeling (ASM), which allows to model a business service starting from any Running Software CI & does not necessary requires to have a URL.

Though uCMDB has a strong multi-tenant feature, this features should be extended to uCMDB Browser too.

Define the process first. Latest the CI+Attribute requirement for each process should be understood. Only then the implementation & management would be smooth.

uCMDB help in fulling several processes like Asset & Service Management (Incident, Problem, Change, Release) in keeping tab of the cost of ownership, SLA tacking & Impact analysis.

It also helps in business service mapping with respective to technologies for event management perspective, giving visibility into the heath & performance of the CI supporting the given business.

uCMDB is one of best discovery software available in the market. It can discover almost everything and creates relationship among discovered CIs and create a topology modelling. You can setup uCMDB server with multiple probes and it can be distributed across all regions to collect information locally and ship to central node. Its scale-able. It discovers various pieces from hardware, software, custom application and tie them together to create a map using ASM (Automated Service Modelling). It works agent less and with agent solutions.

Most of the features are very good so hard to say what I don't like.

This is very good discovery software available in the market.

uCMDB data is helpful with to correlate events. Which helps to reduce number of evens to end user. It also help with business level mapping to provide high level visibility related to health of the business applications.

The Features and function provided by tool.

Implementation and deployment process for tool.

Go for it if your org is large scale enterprise who have huge number of assets /CI's to manage

We got single point of database for our huge number of configuration items.