Eight Practical Tips To Improve Configuration Management

This article discusses an activity that is one of the least appealing to those installing infrastructure systems, and at the same time one of the most necessary to those maintaining these systems: documenting hardware and software configurations. Technically brilliant personnel historically lack the talent or the desire, or both, to clearly document the complexities of their work in a simple, succinct manner. They often can speak in volumes about the significance and application of their efforts, but in deference to Mr. Franklin, having high-powered technical analysts actually doing the documentation rather than speaking to it is a much better way to go.