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Configuration
Management Notes
Configuration
management notes from the foundations course must look at the
overall scope of configuration Management first, realistically
Configuration Management covers the identification, recording, and
reporting of IT components, including their versions, constituent
components and relationships. Items that should be under the
control of Configuration Management include hardware, software and
associated documentation.
Configuration
management notes – basic activities
The basic activities
of Configuration Management are as follows:
- Planning. Planning and
defining the purpose, scope, objectives, policies and procedures,
and the organizational and technical context, for Configuration
Management.
- Identification. Selecting and
identifying the configuration structures for all the
infrastructure's CIs, including their 'owner', their
interrelationships and configuration documentation. It includes
allocating identifiers and version numbers for CIs, labeling each
item, and entering it on the Configuration Management Database
(CMDB).
- Control. Ensuring that only
authorized and identifiable CIs are accepted and recorded, from
receipt to disposal. It ensures that no CI is added, modified,
replaced or removed without appropriate controlling documentation,
e.g. an approved Change request, and an updated specification.
- Status
accounting. The reporting of
all current and historical data concerned with each CI throughout
its life cycle. This enables Changes to CIs and their records to
be traceable, e.g. tracking the status of a CI as it changes from
one state to another for instance 'under development', 'being
tested', 'live', or 'withdrawn'.
- Verification and
audit. A series of reviews
and audits that verify the physical existence of CIs and check
that they are correctly recorded in the Configuration Management
system.
Configuration
management notes – systems development
Configuration
Management interfaces directly with systems development, testing,
Change Management and Release Management to incorporate new and
updated product deliverables. Control should be passed from the
project or supplier to the service provider at the scheduled time
with accurate configuration records.
THE ASSET MANAGEMENT TOOLKIT
Each
item included is of the highest quality, tailor made to cover a
different aspect and issue. It includes presentations,
questionnaires, guidelines, fact sheets.... and whole gamut of
material specifically put together to both introduce and take you
through Asset Management.
It comprises the
following components (click
here)
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