Configuration management
In Information Technology and telecommunication, the term configuration management has the following meanings: - The management of security features and assurances through control of changes made to hardware, software, firmware, documentation, test, test fixtures and test documentation of an automated information system, throughout the development and operational life of a system. Source Code Management or revision control is part of this.
- The control of changes--including the recording thereof--that are made to the hardware, software, firmware, and documentation throughout the system lifecycle.
- The control and adaption of the evolution of complex systems. It is the discipline of keeping evolving software products under control, and thus contributes to satisfying quality and delay constraints. Software configuration management (or SCM) can be divided into two areas. The first (and older) area of SCM concerns the storage of the entities produced during the software project, sometimes referred to as component repository management. The second area concerns the activities performed for the production and/or change of these entities; the term engineering support is often used to refer this second area.
See also Information Technology Infrastructure Library, Capability Maturity Model
Products for software configuration management (SCM)TRUEchange, www.mccabe.com/true.htmAldon LM, complete configuration management solution for multiple-platforms (.scc compliant, eclipse compliant).GNU Arch, a distributed revision control systemCode Co-op, affordable Peer-to-peer VCS for distributed development (.scc compliant)CVS, a descendant of RCS (.scc compliant?)Telelogic SYNERGY, a Task-Based CM system (.scc compliant)PVCS, a competitor of SCCS (.scc compliant)Rational ClearCase, a proprietary program (.scc compliant)RCS, a descendant of SCCS, diffs based on most recent version (.scc compliant)Visual SourceSafe (.scc compliant)Subversion the successor of CVSSCCS the original UNIX .scc program, based on diffsAllChange flexible configuration management solutionBitkeeper, a proprietary configuration management solution.AccuRev, a commercial product based on a streams architecture and atomic transactionsCfengine, administers and configures computers according to high-level language configuration filesLCFG, a large scale UNIX configuration systemVesta, an advanced configuration management system. Free software. Used at Intel for microprocessor design.AllFusion Harvest Change Manager, commercial change and configuration management tool from Computer AssociatesBazaar-NG, is an open source distributed version control system still in the early stages of development.
Sites for configuration management Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from the National Information Systems Security Glossary
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