Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
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Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Alice:Â consults an Excel file and reports 1984 running systems. (What should be)
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Bob:Â consults AWS, Azure, GCE and internal vCenter and reports 2010 running systems. (What is)
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Carol: remembers that 5 internal VMs are running 33 Docker containers, and asks if they should be included or not. (Exception)
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
System of Record (SOR): A system of record is the authoritative data source for a given data element or piece of information. (What should be)
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Source of Truth (SOT): The source of truth is a trusted data source that gives a complete picture of the data object as a whole. (What is)
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
A configuration management database (CMDB) is a repository that acts as a data warehouse for information technology (IT) installations. It holds data relating to a collection of IT assets (commonly referred to as configuration items (CI)), as well as to descriptive relationships between such assets.
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Single System of Truth Records (SSOR): every data element is stored exactly once.
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Asset Inventory
IP Addresses
Network Devices
vCenter
AWS
Azure
GCE
Kubernetes
CMDB
Single System of Records (SSOR):
every data element is
stored exactly
once.
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Network Devices
CMDB
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Network Devices
CMDB
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks
andrea.dainese@gmail.com
www.routereflector.com
@adainese
www.linkedin.com/in/adainese
Automate IT²: Chapter #1 at Palo Alto Networks