Are there any good/automateable dependency management tools for managing application, database & external resources dependencies?

I would like to build an overview/map of as many of our applications depe开发者_如何转开发ndencies as possible. Analyzing .NET application dependencies is fairly easy using tools such as NDepend (which I love!). But when it comes to external dependencies, such as databases and webservices, I need something better, and preferably something that can be automated by various tools.

For example I might have one tool populating a list of databases, another tool for populating a list of .NET applications, a third tool that gets a list of webservices and finally a tool that somehow knows how to mine the applications for dependencies between the components found by the other tools.

All or most of this could be automated so that I wouldn't have to maintain a list of dependencies myself which would be error prone and probably be outdated by the time i finish. So I would love to have a tool that could do all of it for me or at least a tool that could hold, analyze and visualize the components and dependencies, instead of building it myself. The less I have to do the better...

Try Lattix. It has support for databases and other technologies and will also allow you to specify your own external dependencies

Although Lattix is fairly flexible I found it easier to just write my own viewer and data store to get the functionality I wanted. It wasn't all that bad to do but would've been nice to use a standard solution instead of a custom one.