Wow, this discovery extension for Marimba is just what we were talking about last week when Facing the Dell laptop with a Sony battery recall… can a CMDB help? I think that our conclusion was, tracking that information in your CMDB without discovery doesn’t give you the efficiency gains you’d want. But here’s where discovery steps in. From an internal announcement: “ BMC Configuration Management (Marimba) is offering a free extension to our agent-based BMC Configuration Discovery product. The free extension modifies existing functionality to allow users to accurately discover and report on faulty Dell batteries throughout their extended environment.
To get this free extension, please contact the Configuration Management support organization at 888-930-5556 or email MPL_Customer-Support@bmc.com for details on obtaining and deploying the Configuration Discovery extension.”