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Last week, an architect spent 45 minutes trying to figure out what would break if they upgraded a monitoring server. They clicked through 6 different CMDB screens, exported 3 reports, and still weren't confident in the answer.

Then they typed: "How can I upgrade ns-monitor-01? Which services will be affected?"

30 seconds later, they had a complete impact assessment, a list of affected systems, and step-by-step upgrade recommendations.

The data was always there. They just couldn't ask for it.

You ran a discovery scan. Found 2,347 assets. Congrats — you now have a very expensive spreadsheet.

The real question isn't "what do we have?" It's "what breaks when this thing goes down?"

Last month, a routine database upgrade took down an ERP system for 6 hours. The change was approved as "low risk." Nobody knew the database served 14 application servers, 3 business-critical services, and 2,000 users.

The information existed. It was in the CMDB. But nobody connected the dots.