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CA CMDB Family/Class Structure

CA CMDB provides default configuration item families and the CI classes they contain.

Note: For information about the default CA CMDB family and class structure, see the CA CMDB Technical Reference Guide.

Note: The following Service Desk and CA APM base families do not have their own CA CMDB extension tables:

• Computer
• Contact (as base object)
• Hardware
• Location (as base object)
• Organization (as base object)
• Other
• Project
• Software

In CA CMDB, CIs in these base families receive CI Detail pages with some extraneous fields and lacking an Attributes tab. To take advantage of CA CMDB advanced features such as the ability to track family-specific attributes, versioning, snapshots and baselines, we recommend that you use the Change Family and Class capability to convert these CIs to CA CMDB families.