Is it possible to implement CSDM without Discovery?

[Thiagofmeira]

Hi All,

I have a customer and they are very worried about how to structure the CSDM and are rushing to create the services etc.
But they still don't have many things in place, for example the Discovery or the CIs. At the moment they want to import CIs manually.

I my point of view, they are spending too much energy in something that should be analyzed in the future, when we have the foundation data in place and at least a Discovery running in their network.

I would like to hear your opinion about that and understand if am I wrong.

Thank you!

[Piyush Dwivedi]

I think Business Applications, Applications services etc. are logical CIs, these Classes need to be feed manually even if you have Auto Discovery but Service mapping (Top-down Discovery) will help to relate these CIs with Infrastructure, and other Software CIs.

[Juan Osorio]

The short answer is yes. However, you lose visibility to know what infrastructure everything rides on.