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Configuration Management Database (CMDB): Cornerstone of ITIL-Based Integrated Service Support
White Papers This is the idea behind a configuration management database (CMDB). Often, integration of applications simply means passing key data from one database into another to ensure the correct information is available to the management process.
[January 3, 2006, 0:01]
Best-Practice Recommendations: Configuration Management
White Papers Optimized configuration management allows organizations to control and protect the deployment of their IT resources. This paper outlines several best practices to help organizations implement and optimize their configuration management programs.
[February 10, 2009, 0:20]
Configuration Management for the Database
White Papers Configuration management is the next step for managing IT complexity in the contemporary enterprise. Specifically, configuration management is an ongoing business process that empowers companies with exact information about the makeup of their IT...
[April 20, 2006, 1:01]
Configuration Management Database Population and Dependency Mapping
White Papers The need for and awareness around Configuration Management DataBases (CMDBs) to track infrastructure items and their relationships continues to grow while business demands and mission critical service levels have stretched IT resources.
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Configuration Management - Taking the First Steps
White Papers To many organizations Configuration Management as new discipline, demands increased headcount as well as considerable expenditure on tools. Coupling this with the need to explain the benefits of Configuration Management would be a daunting prospect...
[November 22, 2004, 23:00]
Configuration Management and Engineering Change Control
White Papers This paper will provide practical approaches to implementing and managing engineering changes and explore Product Data Management (PDM) or Product Information Management (PIM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) can be used as a tool to support...
[May 4, 2006, 0:00]
Configuration Management - The "Not so Obvious" Starting Point
White Papers Configuration Management is tasked with capturing, keeping and providing up-to-date information about the IT infrastructure. Configuration Management aims to provide reliable details about the IT infrastructure, also details of the specific items...
[November 30, 2005, 0:00]
Defining, Modeling & Costing IT Services: Integrating Service Level, Configuration & Financial Management Processes
White Papers This paper will examine the fundamental steps for defining IT services, modeling IT services in a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and developing service based IT costing models. These activities are part of three IT processes (Service...
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
Network Configuration Management
Downloads Missilesoft Network Configuration Management is a set of utilities that manage networks configuration, diagnose, and monitor network. And then you just need to select a configuration, IP Manager will instantly switch to it.
[July 1, 2009, 4:24]
HP OpenView Change and Configuration Management Solutions
White Papers HP OpenView Change and Configuration Management solutions automate the management of software, including operating systems, applications, patches, content and configuration settings, to help ensure that each computing device has the right software...
[January 10, 2005, 2:00]
Extend the Value of Your Service Desk and Integrate ITIL Processes With IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database
White Papers To expand on these capabilities and include other ITIL processes, database products called Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) have been developed. However, most service desks utilize data repositories, which were designed to primarily...
[February 10, 2009, 0:20]
An Access Control Solution for the Inter-Organizational Use of ITIL Federated Configuration Management Databases
White Papers Many ITSM processes rely on accurate information which is provided by the Configuration Management (CM) process and stored in a database called CMDB. As it is next to impossible to store all the necessary data in a single huge database, the...
[February 10, 2009, 0:20]
Automate Your Citrix Migrations With HP Configuration Management Software
White Papers The attendee of this webcast can learn how HP Configuration Management software can streamline and automate Presentation Server migration. Migrating to Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 in a large data center can be time consuming and if not performed...
[November 15, 2007, 0:01]
Why Configuration Management Matters
White Papers People sometimes ask if configuration management and change management are the same functional set of tasks. To understand Configuration Management (CM) better, this paper reviews it through its four primary objectives and benefits.
[March 22, 2006, 0:01]
Enabling Configuration Management with Mercury Application Mapping
White Papers Mercury Application Mapping delivers accurate, automatically, & continuously updated application maps that organizations can use for a broad range of configuration management activities. Managing today's IT organizations is an exercise in managing...
[February 10, 2005, 2:00]
CA WORLD 2007 Preview: Application Quality Integrated With Change and Configuration Management
White Papers The viewer of this webcast will learn about the testing tools' common symbolic file and the benefits it provides as one integrates the application development and testing with change and configuration management.
[February 17, 2007, 0:00]
Survey Says: CMDBs Enable Highly Effective Change and Configuration Management
White Papers Change and Configuration Management (CCM) is one of the most fundamental building blocks supporting any type of business and IT service management strategy. Configuration Management DataBases (CMDBs) provide an alternative to these costly, error...
[April 19, 2006, 1:01]
Systems Management: Best Practices for Optimization of PC Life-Cycle Configuration Management
White Papers This paper outlines the use of Symantec Ghost Solution Suite as a best-of-breed solution for PC life-cycle configuration management. Symantec Ghost Solution Suite, the industry's most widely used corporate imaging and image deployment solution, can...
[August 5, 2009, 1:21]
Gain a Competitive Edge with Automated Network Configuration Management (NCM): A Wireless Network Service Provider Case Study
White Papers Enforcement of configuration and software standards Configuration monitoring and change detection Rapid device provisioning and lifecycle management Find out how the Opsware Network Automation System is enabling a leading wireless Internet service...
[August 1, 2007, 16:28]
How Cisco IT Uses Software Configuration Management to Minimize Business Risk
White Papers This case study describes Cisco IT's adoption of Software Configuration Management (SCM) to help reduce the business risk that can result from application changes. The Cisco global network is a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one of the...
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
