About NCIM

Use this information to understand how NCIM works, what you can use NCIM for, and the how the NCIM database is structured to store data, and support queries and extensibility.

Topology database tasks
You can use the NCIM topology database to perform the tasks, such as extracting data topology using SQL queries, exporting data from the topology database to third-party applications, and including data from third-party sources and from customized discoveries by extending the database.
Topology database architecture
Use this information to understand how the NCIM topology database works.
Topology database properties
Use this information to understand how the NCIM topology database is structured to store data, and support queries and extensibility.
Topology data
When the network is discovered, both core NCIM tables and entity attribute tables are updated with topology data. These tables include Layer 1, Layer 2, Layer 3, device structure, routing protocol, containment, and technology-specific information.
NCIM cache files
Topology updates are held in a set of files called the NCIM cache files.
SQL files for the NCIM schema
The NCIM database schema is contained within several SQL files. The following is a list of SQL files that contain the schema.

Parent topic: NCIM topology database