CMDB CompassCMDB Compass

Connect ServiceNow to your AI client

Audit, remediate, and govern CMDB changes with controlled actions.

Prerequisites


Setup Guide

1Create an account

Sign up at cmdbcompass.com. Free tier includes full audit capabilities, no credit card required.

2Connect your ServiceNow instance

In the dashboard, go to Instances and add your ServiceNow URL and OAuth credentials.

3Connect to your AI client

Copy the server URL from your dashboard and add it to your client.

ServiceNow AI Agents

Requires Zurich or later. Uses OAuth 2.1 for secure authentication.

  1. Go to your CMDB Compass dashboard → ConfigureSN AI Agents and generate OAuth credentials.
  2. In ServiceNow AI Agent Studio, add CMDB Compass as an MCP server using those credentials.

Step-by-step walkthrough: ServiceNow AI Agent Studio Setup

Claude.ai / ChatGPT

No config files needed — works directly in the browser.

  1. Open Settings → Connectors in Claude.ai or ChatGPT.
  2. Add https://api.cmdbcompass.com/sse as a remote MCP server URL.
Claude Desktop

Add the following to your Claude Desktop config file:

// ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cmdbcompass": {
      "url": "https://api.cmdbcompass.com/sse"
    }
  }
}
Cursor / Windsurf

Add the following to your project's MCP config:

// .cursor/mcp.json  (or .windsurf/mcp.json)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cmdbcompass": {
      "url": "https://api.cmdbcompass.com/sse"
    }
  }
}
ClawHub

One command — installs and configures everything automatically:

clawhub install cmdbcompass

4Start auditing

Ask your AI assistant to run a health check. Examples:

"Calculate the health score for my CMDB"
"Find duplicate CIs in the cmdb_ci_server table"
"Check CSDM compliance for my service offerings"
"Show me stale CIs not updated in 90 days"

What You Can Do

Once connected, here's what you can do with CMDB Compass through your AI client.

Health & Compliance

Run a full health audit across completeness, accuracy, relationships, and staleness. Score your CMDB against CSDM 5.0 maturity criteria, validate tagging and naming policies, and generate board-ready compliance reports in a single conversation.

Data Quality

Detect duplicate CIs by name, serial number, IP, or other identifiers. Get confidence scores on candidate merges before committing. Spot drift from discovery source data, find shadow CIs, orphaned records, and misclassifications that erode trust in your CMDB.

Relationships & Service Mapping

Map upstream and downstream dependencies, validate business-to-technical service mappings, and catch orphaned or circular relationships. AI-powered suggestions fill in missing connections, and auto-heal fixes broken links where confidence is high.

Lifecycle Management

Find CIs that haven't been touched by discovery in weeks or months. Evaluate lifecycle stages, retire stale records with change request linking, and enforce archival policies to keep your CMDB lean and current.

Discovery & Enrichment

Get a full dashboard of discovery schedules, scan history, CI coverage, and health scores. Identify gaps in coverage, push CI data through identification and reconciliation rules, and audit reconciliation source conflicts.

Bulk Operations & Remediation

Fill missing fields across an entire CI class, normalize naming conventions, and apply bulk updates, all linked to a change request for traceability. Every operation is reversible through a full audit trail.

Changes & Incidents

Assess blast radius before a change goes live. Validate approvals, link affected CIs for traceability, and create or search incidents directly from your findings without leaving your AI client.

Query & Explore

Query any ServiceNow table with filters, field selection, and pagination. Browse schemas, look up users and assignment groups, and run multi-step validation pipelines that identify, classify, and report on CIs in one flow.


Security and Architecture

CMDB Compass is built for enterprise environments where trust, auditability, and data sovereignty matter.

Direct connection, no proxy middleware
CMDB Compass connects directly to your ServiceNow instance via a secure, direct connection. Your data never passes through intermediary services.
No pip install or npm install required
Cloud hosted and accessed via URL and API key. No packages to install, no supply chain risk from third party dependencies.
Encrypted credential vault
All stored credentials are encrypted with per user key derivation. Keys are never stored alongside ciphertext.
Zero third party AI proxies
Your CMDB data is never sent to external AI services. The AI client you choose (Claude, ChatGPT, ServiceNow) calls CMDB Compass tools directly.

Privacy and Data Handling

A common question: if I use an AI client with CMDB Compass, what happens to my CMDB data?

How Data Flows

CMDB Compass is a tool layer, not an AI model. Your AI client (Claude, ChatGPT, ServiceNow) sends a tool call to CMDB Compass, which queries your ServiceNow instance directly and returns the result. CMDB Compass never stores, caches, or logs your CMDB data. Every query is live and stateless.

CMDB Compass Does Not Train on Your Data

CMDB Compass has no AI model of its own. It does not use your data for training, fine-tuning, or any form of machine learning. Your credentials are encrypted at rest, and your CMDB data passes through only to fulfill the query you requested. Nothing is retained afterward.

Your AI Provider's Policies Apply

The AI client you choose has its own data handling policies. CMDB Compass does not control how your AI provider processes the tool results it receives. Here is what each provider guarantees on their enterprise plans:

ServiceNow AI Agents
Data stays within your ServiceNow instance. Nothing is sent to external AI services.
Claude (Anthropic)
Anthropic is an official ServiceNow technology partner and the AI behind Now Assist. Enterprise and Teams plans do not use your data for training.
ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Enterprise and Teams plans do not train on your data. API usage is not used for training by default.
You Control the Connection

You choose which AI client to use based on your organization's security requirements. For the most restrictive environments, ServiceNow AI Agents keeps everything inside your instance. For teams already using Claude or ChatGPT, their enterprise plans provide contractual guarantees against data training. For more details, see our security page.


Compliance

Built in compliance controls for regulated industries.

SOX Full Audit Trails
  • Immutable before/after snapshots on every write operation
  • Automatic change record creation in ServiceNow
  • 7 year retention policy enforcement for financial systems
  • Compliance violation reports on demand
  • Full rollback capability on any operation
DORA Governed Remediation
  • 5 year retention enforcement for incident and ICT systems
  • Cross framework compliance scoring
  • Dry run mode before every action
  • Change request validation before any write
ISO 27001 Scoped Access Controls
  • Role based feature gating (read only, write, compliance tiers)
  • Per instance credential isolation
  • Security classification validation on CIs
  • OAuth 2.1 authentication for ServiceNow AI Agents
GDPR Zero Data Retention
  • No customer CMDB data stored, live queries only, nothing cached
  • 3 year retention policy enforcement for PII and personal data systems
  • Flags CIs missing data classification labels