Patent ID: 8843503

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of automatically creating composite configuration items in a configuration management database of a configuration management database system, comprising executing the following steps on a computer: providing a plurality of configuration items and a corresponding plurality of configuration item relationships to the configuration management database of the configuration management database system; and automatically creating one or more composite configuration items in the configuration management database of the configuration management database system from one or more of the plurality of configuration items selected by the computer in accordance with one or more types of the plurality of configuration items, each of the one or more composite configuration items being represented as a graph of a plurality of supporting elements and comprising at least one root element, the at least one root element being used to identify a given composite configuration item within the configuration management database; wherein the step of automatically creating one or more composite configuration items comprises the steps of: determining one or more types of the plurality of configuration items; retrieving one or more of the plurality of configuration items from the configuration management database of a given type of the one or more types of the plurality of configuration items; and creating a composite from the one or more of the plurality of configuration items; wherein the retrieving step comprises scanning the configuration management database for the one or more of the plurality of configuration items of the given type of the one or more types of the plurality of configuration items.