Configuration Management Database — A repository that holds the relationships between the infrastructure components within an IT Infrastructure. The CMDB is federated, enabling existing databases to be connected to the platform, automatically discovers resources and maintains relations among them and has open APIs and tools which simplify data correlation and management.
Configuration Management Database – contains all relevant details of each CI and relationships between them
A configuration management database (CMDB) is a unified or federated repository of information related to all the components of an information system. It helps an organization to understand the relationships between these components and track their configuration. The CMDB is a fundamental component of the ITIL framework's Configuration Management process .