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Configuration management platform to handle IT assets

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Last updated: March 2026

OpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB overview

What is OpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB?

Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB is a configuration management platform, which helps organizations manage, monitor, and map hybrid IT assets across containers, multi-cloud, or on-premise environments using agent-based, agentless, or passive discovery modes.

IT professionals can collect and normalize data about software, hardware, and cloud assets in a centralized repository. The platform enables administrators to create custom configuration policies and receive notifications regarding compliance violations. Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB assists with service dependency modelling and application mapping, helping teams resolve incidents and downtime. It also offers various other features such as change tracking, data reconciliation, scheduled reporting, and multi-tenancy.

Using the impact simulation feature, managers can detect mild, medium, or critical outages across the IT environment. Team members can use the guided workflows to build visual reports relating to installed software, configuration items, compliance, and more. It offers a REST API, which lets businesses integrate with third-party systems and push or pull data from managed databases.

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OpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from OpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB users:

Activity dashboard
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Asset lifecycle management
Change management
Compliance management
Configuration automation
Configuration management
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Data mapping
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Customizable reports
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