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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 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]
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]
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 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 - 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]
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]
Change and Configuration Management: A Discussion of New Options for Improved IT Services Delivery
White Papers This paper considers the history and current status of change and configuration management, the terms most often associated with the discovery, monitoring and modelling of IT device and application statuses and interactions.
[December 7, 2006, 0:00]
Momentum Webcast: Making the Transition to Integrated Software Configuration Management (Level 100)
White Papers This transition can be greatly facilitated by implementing a comprehensive Software Configuration Management (SCM) solution that integrates version control with work items, reporting, builds, and other related activities.
[November 24, 2006, 0:00]
BMC Service Impact Manager and the BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database
White Papers This paper describes how BMC Service Impact Manager (SIM) and its new component, the BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB), can be leveraged for Business Service Management (BSM). Also discussed is how SIM can derive leveraged value...
[May 10, 2005, 3:00]
Application Configuration Console Best Practices: A Best Practices Based Approach to Infrastructure Configuration Management
White Papers Application infrastructure configuration management is a core discipline necessary to effectively manage today's IT infrastructure. Highly-effective IT organizations often practice a common set of configuration management processes, and that's what...
[June 12, 2009, 3:14]
Software Configuration Management: The Foundation of Global Distributed Development Today
White Papers To support distributed development, you need a Software Configuration Management (SCM) solution that enables development to make progress without imposing additional demands on your IT department or network.
[September 28, 2009, 17:03]
Release Presentation: Implementer 2005 for iSeries Software Configuration Management
White Papers Implementer 2005 is MKS's premiere solution for software configuration management and deployment on the iSeries and is an integral part of MKS Integrity Suite 2005 for cross-platform Software Configuration Management (SCM).
[May 4, 2006, 0:00]
Meeting Compliance in the Life Sciences Industry: The Role of Enterprise Software Configuration Management in Systems Validation
White Papers In conclusion, the webcast explains the role that software configuration management plays with regards to systems validation. This webcast presents an overview of the 21 CFR Part 11 regulations, and the regulation's impact on software development...
[May 4, 2006, 0:00]
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]
Maximize Your Enterprise Network Through Configuration Management
White Papers This webcast discusses hot to maximize one's enterprise network using configuration management. The webcast looks at how human error is the leading cause for network downtime and offers actionable solutions to increase network availability...
[March 14, 2006, 23:00]
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]
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]
