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CMDB Navigator

Cloudaware CMDB Navigator is the primary UI for exploring CMDB data. It gives you a structured way to browse providers, objects, and custom records; search across integrations; and open the list views and CI pages that drive queries, reporting, and operations.

Top Menu​

The hamburger icon in the upper-left corner opens a dropdown menu with the key workspace areas:

Navigator is typically split into three main areas:

  • Home page – high‑level view of cloud platforms, physical infrastructure, third‑party integrations, Cloudaware objects, and custom objects.
  • Sidebar – hierarchical tree for navigating providers, product categories (compute, storage, networking, security, etc.), and specific object types.
  • Global search bar – global search input for finding objects by name, ID, IP, or other indexed attributes across enabled integrations.

Use the Home page to get your bearings, the sidebar to drill into specific object types, and the search bar when you know what you are looking for but not where it lives.

Home Page Sections​

The Home page offers an “eagle‑eye” view across your estate and organizes entry points into CMDB:

  • Cloud platforms – AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware vCenter, and other providers, grouped by platform and service category.
  • Physical infrastructure – classic or on‑prem objects such as physical servers, SNMP devices, and related facts.
  • Cloudaware – Cloudaware‑specific objects like Virtual Applications, compliance/security objects (incidents, policies, policy violations, vulnerability scans), and referenced objects (Breeze Agents, CVEs, Docker Images, SSL Certificates, CIDR ranges).
  • Custom Objects – customer‑defined objects created to represent business concepts (applications, services, business units, locations, etc.).
  • Recent – shortcuts to objects and views you accessed recently.

Providers, categories, services, and objects are typically sorted alphabetically within their groups to make scanning easier.

The Navigator sidebar is a structured tree that mirrors how CMDB organizes data:

  • Top‑level nodes – cloud providers and major domains (for example, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, VMware, Cloudaware, custom Objects).
  • Category nodes – product areas such as Compute, Storage, Networking, Security, Identity, Databases, and more.
  • Object nodes – specific CMDB object types (for example, EC2 Instances, RDS Instances, Load Balancers, Security Groups, Kubernetes Pods, VMware VMs).

Selecting an object node opens the corresponding list view in the main pane. From there, you can:

  • Filter by attributes (account, region, tags, state, etc.).
  • Adjust columns and sort order.
  • Save useful views for reuse in queries, dashboards, and reports.

Search and Scopes​

Navigator’s search bar lets you search across providers and integrations:

  • Enter keywords, IDs, or IPs to find matching objects (for example, instance ID, hostname, or IP address).
  • Filter search results by object type to narrow the view (for example, only EC2 Instances or only Security Groups).
  • Toggle Show Deleted to include decommissioned CIs that still exist in CMDB for audit and analysis.

Search results and filtered list views naturally define scopes — sets of CIs that you can reuse in:

  • CMDB queries and saved views.
  • Dashboards and KPI reports.
  • Playbooks, automations, and Compliance Engine evaluations.

Cloudaware, Custom Objects, and Recent​

Several special sections make it easier to navigate Cloudaware‑specific and user‑defined data:

  • Cloudaware – entry point to Cloudaware platform objects (Virtual Applications, compliance/security objects, referenced objects, etc.).
  • Custom Objects – access to objects created by Cloudaware or by your organization to represent business concepts; these behave like any other CMDB objects in list views and CI pages.
  • Recent – a convenience section for jumping back to objects and views you use frequently.

Working with Navigator and CI Views​

Navigator is tightly integrated with the CI detail layout:

  • From list views opened via Navigator, you can drill into CI pages to see detailed fields, relationships, and module tabs (Security, Backups, Application, Change Management, etc.).
  • CI‑level actions such as ATTACH TO APPLICATION, TAG AWS EC2 INSTANCE, or opening related tabs are just a click away once you select a record.
  • Multi‑tab browsing in Navigator makes it easy to compare scopes (for example, production vs. non‑production) or to keep a CI detail page open while you explore related objects.

For more details on how the CI pages are structured, see: