Key concepts

This section provides a high-level overview of the concepts and features of BMC CMDB. Knowing these concepts will give you a better understanding of how BMC CMDB works.

• What is a CMDB?
• Impact simulation
• Datasets to partition data
• Drift Management
• Service context
• CMDB architecture
• Glossary
• ITIL service asset and configuration management
• Service and service catalog
• Service modeling