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Single Management Database

Deployment of a single global Management Database to store data for all products is the simplest to implement. This deployment option is shown in the following illustration. In general, this implementation costs the least and is the easiest to manage.

A single integrated view of the underlying IT infrastructure is available with no additional processing required. In this deployment, administration requirements, including establishing security and data availability, occur once for the single Management Database.

Single MDB Deployment

Starting with CA MDB r1.5, installation of database objects relevant to all IT infrastructure areas is no longer required.