sysdb(7): Added a manpage providing an overview of SysDB.

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+SysDB stores system and inventory information about hardware and software
+systems. This information is stored in a graph-like hierarchy of generic
+objects. The central object type is a host, which generally represents a
+physical or virtual machine or any other type of physical resource. Hosts, in
+turn, may reference a list of services which represent any kind of logical
+resource like a software system. Both, hosts and services, may reference a
+list of attributes which represent further information about the respective
+host or service object. For example, attributes may specify static information
+like a host's architecture or the software version or snapshots of performance
+data like the current memory utilization or much more.
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