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I have the need for an inventory for servers, storage, network devices, etc. and I'm thinking to have this kind of information in a CMDB. It would first be used as an inventory, but later could be for configuration management as well.

Should I create my own CMDB, based on the KISS principle, and make it better over time ? Or get a tool that already does the job, but which I would not be able to evolve over time ?

Any experience with CMDB is welcome. I know that this is perhaps an opinion question, but I need to know what's best.

Samuel PE
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Depends on how much time and money you have to throw at it.

CMDBuild: Open source (Hosted on SourceForge)

Device42: DCIM/CMDB (Has some opensource software, no public pricing)

Solarwinds CMDB: $0.10/month per device + Agent Costs

iTop: Open Source (Has Paid Version, Community is mainly in Dutch)

Service Now is another option but is an Enterprise Software.

I'd recommend looking online for reviews of the product, websites like this provide some good information, but use them as a grain of salt as far as the best products.

If you are looking for a SaaS product I'd look at IT Glue (although I wouldn't call it a CMDB), I have first-hand knowledge of it. It's not a bad product, it works well and has loads of integrations with popular RMM software to gather device information and has documentation capabilities for documents/procedures and a password vault etc.

Noah
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