Configuration management
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In information technology and telecommunications, the term configuration management or configuration control has the following meanings:
- The management of security' features and assurances through control of changes made to hardware, software, firmware, documentation, test, test fixtures and test documentation of an automated information system, throughout the development and operational life of a system. Source Code Management or revision control is part of this.
- The control of changes--including the recording thereof--that are made to the hardware, software, firmware, and documentation throughout the system lifecycle.
- The control and adaptation of the evolution of complex systems. It is the discipline of keeping evolving software products under control, and thus contributes to satisfying quality and delay constraints. Software configuration management (or SCM) can be divided into two areas. The first (and older) area of SCM concerns the storage of the entities produced during the software development project, sometimes referred to as component repository management. The second area concerns the activities performed for the production and/or change of these entities; the term engineering support is often used to refer to this second area.
- After establishing a configuration, such as that of a telecommunications or computer system, the evaluating and approving changes to the configuration and to the interrelationships among system components.
- In distributed-queue dual-bus (DQDB) networks, the function that ensures the resources of all nodes of a DQDB network are configured into a correct dual-bus topology. The functions that are managed include the head of bus, external timing source, and default slot generator functions.
See also Information Technology Infrastructure Library, Capability Maturity Model, Netconf
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Products for
For a more complete list see List of revision control software.
- Cfengine, administers and configures computers according to high-level language configuration files
- KONFIG CM, [link]the total configuration management solution for software, hardware, data and all physical items.
- LCFG, a large scale UNIX configuration system
- [Puppet], administers and configures computers according to high-level configuration files
- [ControlTier]open source configuration management and process automation tools for deploying multi-tier enterprise applications.
- [NetDirector]NetDirector is an open source configuration management tool for managing open source applications running on many variants of Linux. Unique features include the ability to simultaneously push changes simultaneously on many different platforms.
- [IsiSetup] provides a commandline interface to manage your system configuration files using a revision control tool. It runs on most Debian-based distributions and integrates well into the Debian package management system.
- [Changelogic] enables web based branch, task and release management. It supports CVS and Subversion for underlying version control.
Components for software/hardware/network configuration management (CMDB)
- [ZENmetrics], an agentless software component for collecting and integrating CMDB data with 3rd party and bespoke applications.
Sites for configuration management
- [CMBoK], Site for collaboration on the Configuration Management Body of Knowledge
- [CmWiki], Configuration Management Wiki - A wiki web dedicated to Configuration Management
- [CM Community], Connecting Configuration Management Professionals around the World: An independent website which contains numerous resources on configuration management which includes CM Forum, CM Jobs Database, CM Salary Survey, CM processes and etc.
- [ABS Consulting], Professional SCM services company specializing in Rational ClearCase
- [CM Crossroads], an online community and resource center for Configuration Management featuring discussion forums, jobs board and newsletters including the CM Journal
- [UCMcentral], Configuration Management Coffee Break Site
- Steve Easterbrook's CM Resource Guide [link]
- Parallel Development Strategies for Software Configuration Management [link]
- An article on Open source configuration management tools, including references to many of them, see [Comments on OSS/FS Software Configuration Management (SCM) Systems]
- [CM Magazin], a german-language online magazine for Configuration Management
- Institute of Configuration Management, home of CM II [link]
- [Comparison chart] of version control products
See also
- Network Management
- Revision control
- Change management
- Change detection
- Dependency management
- Software configuration management
- Programming tool
- Software engineering
- List of software engineering topics
External links
- [cfile]
- [Cfengine.org]
- [cfwiki.org]
- [Software-Pointers - List of Configuration Management Tools]
- Article [Software Configuration Management for the Web] from [Methods & Tools]
- [Configuration Management and ISO 9001]
- [NetDirector.org]
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