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Adding a New CA CMDB Family or Class

Adding a new CA CMDB family requires careful planning. CA CMDB provides many pre-defined families and classes, so determine whether these are sufficient for your needs before considering customization. If not, some new requirements can be met by one of the following:

• defining a new class in an existing family
• defining a new family that uses an existing extension table

If you determine that existing extension tables are insufficient for your needs, skip this section and continue to the section Constructing a New Attribute Framework to create an extension table and the forms that it requires.