CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

Configuration management

Table of contents

SUMMARY3

BODY: DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS3

The notion of a configuration5

Growth and change7

Definitions of configuration administration from the literature9

The customary form of CM11

Shortfalls12

A new form for CM15

Configuration object type20

CONCLUSION27

REFERENCES29

Configuration management

Summary

Many persons are uncertain of the meaning of the term configuration management. This paper will clarify the term configuration as applied to computers used in support of core business, and answer the question "When does a computer scheme become a configuration. The expansion of new computer-based goods with attractive trading makes the alternative of business-support hardware and software difficult. Attempts to integrate packages without due consider to the existing scheme can lead to difficulties. The paper will outline the traditional approach to managing a configuration and considers growth and change. A paper is summarised by giving a selection of definitions followed by a diagrammatic representation of the customary form of configuration management. Shortfalls are considered and a new model is suggested which profiles a Registrar, review methods and Change control. The last part of this paper is dedicated to a form for change control.

Body: Discussion and Analysis

There is an extensive recognition of the need for effective administration of any computer scheme that supports a business function, but even amidst the technocrats of the computer world there is doubt and doubt about the period configuration administration (CM). With the ever expanding amount of software on the market and altering performances in hardware measures, it is often difficult to hold abreast of new products. Even with the emphatic move toward open schemes the compatibility of available goods with one's own present computer scheme is often a worry. There are occurrences where companies have (subsequently) discovered that they have bought the identical programs merchandise many times over, independently by interior agencies that have no information of what was already accessible inside the company. This has led to pointless expenditure in wasted permit fees.

These situations could be bypassed by using productive configuration management. There are a number of misconceptions, for demonstration the belief those centimeters adds enormous quantities of paperwork to the documentation of a computer system. Some persons solidly accept as true that CM is a documentation system for holding records to display which programs submissions are on which hard disc. Others address centimetres to request only to software while it is being evolved; others think that centimetres is actually the same as change command (CC) or type command (VC). The next part clarifies the significance of the period configuration and then devotes a agent sample of centimetres delineations selected from the literature.

The notion of a configuration

The term configuration is used to refer to all parts of a computer system: hardware, software, application packages, bespoke software, operating system(s), in-house developed and maintained software, on-screen help files and documentation in manuals, working practices, communication interfaces, LANs, WANs and all peripherals. As an illustration, address a model of a circulated computer scheme (Figure 1).

Figure 1 comprises a 'spatial' model of a computer configuration because it displays the ...