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The MDB Approach

The Management Database (MDB) is a common enterprise data repository that integrates CA Technologies product suites. The MDB provides a unified database schema for the management data stored by all CA Technologies products (mainframe and distributed). Use of the MDB with CA Technologies products enables full integration for managing your IT infrastructure.

The MDB integrates management data from all IT disciplines and CA Technologies products. Customers may extend the MDB Schema to include additional IT management data from non-CA Technologies software products and tools.

Note: The MDB Schema is available from http://ca.com/support. Search the Technical Support knowledge base for more information.

The primary advantages of the MDB approach are: