CCMDB Connector

You can use the CMDB Connector to read, write, delete, or search configuration items (CIs) and relationships between them in the IBM® Tivoli® Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB).

Note: This connector is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of IBM Security Directory Integrator.

The CCMDB is an integrated productivity tool and database that helps you manage, audit, and coordinate the change and configuration management processes using user interfaces and workflow that are designed to facilitate cross-silo cooperation. CCMDB includes a database that serves as a logical aggregation of many databases, providing critical information about IT infrastructure resources, including key attributes, their configurations, and their physical and logical relationships to other infrastructure resources.

The CCMDB Connector uses JDBC to connect to the database and supports only the DB2® database. This connector uses the queries.xml configuration file to include static SQL statements to retrieve or store data into the database.

In the CCMDB Connector, a hierarchical data source schema is used to represent information. The schema depends on the specified artifact type such as actual configuration item or relationship, and the specified class type.

For more information about CCMDB, see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v10r1/topic/com.ibm.ccmdb.doc_7.1.1/overview/c_ccmdb_overview.html.