How to Build a CMDB And Map Your Entire IT Infrastructure

InvGate

Aug 24, 2026

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Building a CMDB used to mean weeks of manual work before you had anything useful to show for it. In this video, Matt Beran walks through how to build a CMDB in InvGate Asset Management, from collecting configuration items to mapping the relationships between them automatically.

A CMDB stores every configuration item in your IT infrastructure, servers, network gear, applications, and end user devices, along with the relationships between them. That map turns a list of assets into a picture of how your infrastructure actually works, and it feeds directly into Change Management and incident response.

You'll see how to:

Collect configuration items from your existing inventory.
Create a Business Application as the container for a service.
Add configuration items and draw relationships manually.
Use CMDB Auto-Mapping to discover and maintain those relationships automatically, without hundreds of hours of manual upkeep.
Click into any configuration item to see everything that depends on it before making a change.
Read the full Business Application summary, including CI count, health status, tickets, and cost.

Want to see how the inventory behind this CMDB gets built in the first place? Check out our video on unified inventory: https://youtu.be/uDTs_3mfGVE.

Schedule a call with our team: https://tinyurl.com/2t2m8nk7.

Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction

00:29 - Collecting Configuration Items (CIs)

00:56 - Creating a Business Application

01:55 - Adding CIs and relationships manually

03:29 - CMDB Auto-Mapping: discovering relationships automatically

05:33 - Using the CMDB map for Change Management

05:56 - Business Application summary

06:17 - Conclusion

For more information please visit our site at www.invgate.com.