Change and configuration management

Change and configuration management, IT Service management, ITIL, SOX

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Defining a Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

Change and configuration management deals with management of configurable data. The configurable data could be of following kinds:

  1. Software configuration settings
  2. Hardware configuration settings
  3. Relationships
  4. Documenetation
  5. People information - Business attributes

The above configurable data is also called as Configurable Item (CI). The information about the above mentioned configurable item is stored in a persistent storage also called Configuration management database (CMDB).

CMDB is going to go a long way in managing complex IT environments, says IT analysts. CMDB could help in one of the following manners:

  1. Change and configuration management
  2. Inventory management
  3. Availability and release management
  4. Incident management
  5. Infrastructure and application management

The above-mentioned use of CMDB conforms to ITIL best practices. It is seemingly becoming evident that every IT company in near future would seek one or the other configuration management tool.

There has to be a couple of winners in the change and configuration management landscape. Lets wait and watch the fun of competition!

1 Comments:

At 6:34 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Keep up the good work » » »

 

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