Free ServiceNow CMDB Health Check

Find out exactly why your ServiceNow CMDB can’t be trusted — a free, fixed-scope health check delivered in two weeks. No sales pitch.

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The Four Dragons ServiceNow CMDB Health Check is a free, two-week, fixed-scope assessment of your Configuration Management Database (CMDB) — CI data quality, class coverage, Discovery and Service Mapping health, and alignment to the Common Service Data Model (CSDM) — delivered with a prioritized remediation roadmap. It is the fastest way to find out why your CMDB cannot be trusted, and exactly what to do about it. Four Dragons is a boutique ServiceNow services firm — not a product company — led by Ian Cox, a former ServiceNow employee with over a decade on the platform. Free · two weeks.

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The CMDB Health Check is offered at no cost and runs as a fixed two-week engagement — a clear baseline and prioritized roadmap, with no obligation to proceed to remediation.

Key outcomes

A clear health baseline. A scored view of CMDB health across your CI classes, so you know where you stand.
Root-cause findings. Why the data has drifted — Discovery gaps, weak identification and reconciliation, duplicates, and missing governance.
A prioritized remediation roadmap. The specific, sequenced actions to reach a target health level, with effort and impact.
A decision-ready plan you own. An executive summary and roadmap you can act on with us or in-house.

What the CMDB Health Check assesses

We evaluate the completeness, compliance, and correctness of your Configuration Management Database (CMDB): CI class coverage; Discovery health, including MID Server configuration and can’t-classify failures; Service Mapping status; CSDM alignment; identification and reconciliation (IRE) rules that prevent duplicates; and whether a data-certification cadence exists to keep health high.

What good CMDB health looks like

These are the target benchmarks we score your CMDB against in the Health Check. Fall short on any of them and that gap goes straight onto your prioritized remediation roadmap.

CMDB health metric	Healthy target	Why it matters
CI data freshness	95% seen in last 30 days	Stale CIs break automation and reporting
Duplicate CI rate	Under 2%	Duplicates corrupt impact analysis and license counts
Orphaned CI rate	Under 5%	Orphans have no owner, lifecycle, or service context
Relationship coverage	90% or higher	No relationships = no Service Mapping or impact analysis
Mandatory field completion	98% or higher	Gaps break CSDM and downstream processes
Classification accuracy	99% or higher	Wrong class means wrong rules and wrong reports
Circular dependencies	Zero	Circular references break maps and change impact
Stale CI count	Under 3%	Decay is the silent killer of CMDB trust

Signs your CMDB has drifted

Duplicate and orphaned CIs, stale records, low Discovery coverage, business services that were never mapped, and — the clearest signal — teams who no longer trust the CMDB for incident, change, or impact analysis. If any of these sound familiar, a Health Check gives you the facts.

What you receive

A CMDB health scorecard, a root-cause analysis of why data quality has degraded, a prioritized remediation roadmap with target health levels, and a concise executive summary for stakeholders. Fixed scope, fixed timeline, no open-ended discovery.

Your two-week schedule

Fixed scope, fixed timeline. Here is how the two weeks run.

Week 1 — Baseline and audit

Kickoff & scope (Day 1). Confirm objectives, in-scope CI classes, and access; agree on the health metrics we will report against.
Health baseline (Days 1–2). Score completeness, compliance, and correctness across your Principal CI classes so you have a defensible starting point.
Governance & data-quality audit (Days 2–3). Review identification and reconciliation (IRE) rules, inclusion rules, staleness, orphaned CIs, and Managed-By/ownership gaps.
Discovery & Service Mapping posture (Days 3–4). Assess Discovery coverage and schedules, MID Server health, can’t-classify failures, and the state of Service Mapping.
Controls review (Day 5). Check CSDM alignment and whether a data-certification cadence exists to keep health high.

Week 2 — Findings and roadmap

Root-cause analysis (Days 6–7). Trace each material issue to its source — rules, sources writing around IRE, or missing governance — rather than treating symptoms.
Prioritized Top-10 (Day 8). The highest-impact fixes, sequenced by effort and impact.
Remediation roadmap (Day 9). A target-state plan with target health levels and the order to execute in.
Executive readout (Day 10). A scorecard, root-cause findings, and a decision-ready roadmap you own — walked through with your team.

From Health Check to remediation

The Health Check is the entry point. When you are ready to execute the roadmap, our full ServiceNow CMDB Remediation & CSDM Alignment service fixes the root causes and restores the CMDB as a trusted system of record — which in turn powers ITOM, SPM, and Agentic AI.

Frequently asked questions

What is a ServiceNow CMDB Health Check?

A fixed-scope assessment of your CMDB’s data quality, CI coverage, Discovery and Service Mapping health, and CSDM alignment, delivered with a prioritized remediation roadmap. It tells you how healthy your CMDB is and what to fix first.

How much does the CMDB Health Check cost?

It is free. The Health Check is a no-cost, fixed-scope engagement — you get a full baseline and prioritized roadmap with no obligation to proceed to remediation.

How long does it take?

Two weeks — it is deliberately fixed-scope and time-boxed, so you get a clear baseline and roadmap quickly rather than an open-ended engagement.

What do we receive at the end?

A health scorecard, root-cause analysis, a prioritized remediation roadmap with target health levels, and an executive summary — a plan you own and can act on.

Is it really fixed-scope?

Yes. The Health Check has a defined scope and deliverables so you can make a confident decision about remediation without committing to a large project up front.