Monday September 06 , 2010

Configuration Management White Paper

Configuration management is a detail updating and recording of information that describes an enterprise's networks and computer systems, including all software and hardware components.


Skills Required for Configuration Management:

  1. Customer Configuration Management.
  2. Ability to maintain data.
  3. Quality Assurance.
  4. System Engineering.
  5. System Integration.

Configuration Management training: Courses

  1. Server Administration.
  2. Rational Clear Case Fundamentals for Windows.
  3. Mastering Rational Clear Case Administration for Windows.
  4. Mastering Rational Clear Quest Administration.
  5. Essentials of Configuration Management with Rational Clear Case UCM.
  6. Essentials of Rational Clear Case for UNIX.
  7. Essentials of Rational Clear Case UCM for UNIX.

Benefits of Configuration Management:

  1. Configuration Management assists with financial and expenditure planning.
  2. It is easy to produce a list of expected maintenance costs and license fees.
  3. The visibility of software changes will be enabling.
  4. Management of configuration contributes to IT Service planning.
  5. Productivity of personnel will be improved by Configuration Management.

Tips for Configuration Management:

  1. To build the product of required documentation is to just put the needed things in the configuration management.
  2. Tracking changes easily, when you don't know what the need of that item is.
  3. You should consider skipping it when configuration management system is unclear and process takes exclusive time or effort for adding an item.