2006-06-14 09:51:10 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
mapping the interaction between all the computer components a company has so that when they make a change, the company knows which other things also need to be changed or reconfigured. Here's a the address for a good article on it http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/story/0,10801,101081,00.html?SKC=management-101081
2006-06-14 10:00:09 · answer #1 · answered by Mary K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you develop some software, you generally put your source code into a "SCC" software (Source Code Control), such as Visual Source Safe, CVS or ClearCase.
This helps you in sharing sources between co-workers in a team. Each guy takes the file, makes some changes, and puts it into the repository. If 2 have made concurrent changes, the program tries to merge the changes, and if some conflicts occur, the latest one to "release" the source file merges it manually.
Thus, at file level you can trace all changes made by your co-workers.
Configuration management is quite the same idea, but at project-level. Such a software can help you in finding the exact configuration of all your sources involved in a project, at a given date (generally set at a label).
You can define "components" and specify that component A in version 2.0 requires component B in version 3.1 for example....
Most of big "SCC" programs can do "configuration management".
2006-06-15 16:38:41 · answer #2 · answered by Helena 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋