Analyze CMDB settings for Data Foundations

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  • Updated August 7, 2025
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    Summary of Analyze CMDB settings for Data Foundations

    This feature enables ServiceNow customers to monitor and optimize Configuration Management Database (CMDB) settings that ensure high-quality configuration item (CI) data, alignment with the Common Service Data Model (CSDM), and achievement of Data Foundations outcomes. It leverages the Settings tab in the CMDB success advisor for Data Foundations to review critical configuration indicators and uncover opportunities for improvement.

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    Key Features

    • Comprehensive Evaluation: The CMDB success advisor assesses your current CMDB configuration in essential areas such as Data Manager ownership policies for principal CI classes, reconciliation rules that manage attribute ownership across integration sources, and CI class manager configurations.
    • Settings Categorization: Configuration settings are classified as either Ideal or Requires attention, helping you prioritize remediation actions effectively to maintain a healthy CMDB aligned with Data Foundations.
    • Access and Navigation: Access the feature via the CMDB success advisor landing page by selecting the Data Foundations card and navigating to the Settings tab. Note that the dashboard becomes available only after completing the setup process.
    • Role Requirements: Access requires the sncmdbadmin role. To manage business rules, switch the application scope to Global.
    • Practical Use Cases: CMDB administrators use this feature to ensure Data Manager policies cover all principal classes, verify reconciliation rules to protect high-quality data, identify gaps in Data Manager policy coverage, and align settings with CSDM for effective service mapping and dependency tracking.

    Key Outcomes

    • Improved CI data quality by enforcing appropriate ownership policies and reconciliation rules.
    • Better alignment of CMDB settings with CSDM standards, supporting comprehensive service mapping and dependency management.
    • Prioritized actions based on clear visibility into configuration health, streamlining maintenance efforts for Data Foundations compliance.
    • Enhanced lifecycle management and data integrity through automated Data Manager policies.

    Monitor and optimize Configuration Management Database (CMDB) settings that support configuration item (CI) data quality, Common Service Data Model (CSDM) alignment, and Data Foundations outcomes.

    Use the Settings tab in the CMDB success advisor for Data Foundations to review configuration indicators and identify opportunities to improve CMDB alignment with Data Foundations guidelines.

    The CMDB success advisor for Data Foundations evaluates your current configuration across key areas such as:

    • CMDB Data Manager ownership policies for principal classes
    • Reconciliation rules ensuring the right integration source owns each attribute
    • CI class manager configuration for principal class designation

    Settings are categorized as Ideal or Requires attention, enabling you to prioritize actions and maintain a healthy CMDB for Data Foundations.

    For a quick reference to validate CMDB settings for Data Foundations, see Settings checklist for Data Foundations in CMDB success advisor.

    Access settings

    Navigate to the CMDB success advisor landing page, and on the Data Foundations card, select View insights. Select the Settings tab to access settings-related details. For more information, see Access CMDB success advisor.

    Note:
    The CMDB success advisor for Data Foundations dashboard is available only after the setup process is complete. For more information, see CMDB success advisor for Data Foundations setup.

    Required roles

    You need the sn_cmdb_admin role to access the CMDB success advisor for Data Foundations.

    To manage business rules, change the application scope from CMDB success advisor to Global in the application picker.

    Use cases

    For examples of how different people in your organization would use this feature, see these use cases.

    User Feature use
    CMDB administrator
    • Make sure Data Manager ownership policies are configured for all principal classes
    • Verify reconciliation rules prevent lower-quality sources from overwriting high-quality CI data
    • Identify CI classes with no Data Manager policy coverage and remediate gaps
    • Align CMDB settings with CSDM to support service mapping and dependency tracking

    Settings features

    The Settings tab in the CMDB success advisor for Data Foundations provides visibility into key configuration areas that promote accurate and complete CI data for your principal classes. These settings include business rules for CI creation, reconciliation rules that govern attribute ownership across integration sources, and Data Manager policies that support automated life cycle management and data integrity. To maintain CMDB data quality for Data Foundations, regularly review and validate these settings. For more information, see CMDB and Data Foundations settings assessed in the CMDB success advisor.