H. Madduri S. S. B. Shi R. Baker N. Ayachitula L. Shwartz M. Surendra C. Corley M. Benantar S. Patel In this paper, we present the architecture of the IBM Tivolit Change and Configuration Management Database. Its main features include a rich data model, automatic discovery of data for configuration items, visualization of application dependencies on configuration items, and multicustomer suppor...

The paradigm of Cloud computing introduces new approaches to manage IT services going beyond concepts originating in traditional IT service management. The main goal is to automate the whole management of services to reduce costs and to make management tasks less error-prone. Two different service management paradigms are used in practice: configuration management and model-driven Cloud managem...

Project management is a complex process regulated by project management methodologies, standards and other requirements. Project management information systems are used to support project management activities. To ensure effective use of the project management information system, it is necessary that the system could be configured according requirements of the chosen methodology. The configurat...

Software Configuration Management controls evolution of software development process to include only valid configuration items in the final product. The study offers a new model-driven approach for the implementation of software configuration management. The new approach is based on creation of configuration management models with different scopes and level of abstraction. The first model in co...

Management of operating system configuration files files is an essential part of UNIX systems administration. It is particularly difficult in environments with a large number of computers. This paper presents a study of UNIX configuration file management. It compares existing systems and tools from the literature, presents several case studies of configuration file management in practice, exami...

A configuration management concept is presented for software projects using Lyee methodology. To show this concept an introduction in configuration management is given. Then, the structure of Lyee programs is redefined by sets and their dependencies. From this redefined structure, the actual configuration management concept is derivated and discussed.

There are several current theoretical models used to discuss configuration management, including aspects, closures, and promises. We examine how these models relate to one another, and develop a overall theoretical framework within which to discuss configuration management solutions. We apply this framework to classify the capabilities of current tools, and develop requirements for the next gen...

Vesta is a system for software configuration management. It stores collections of source files, keeps track of which versions of which files go together, and automates the process of building a complete software artifact from its component pieces. Vesta’s novel approach gives it three important properties not available in other systems. First, every build is repeatable, because its component so...

IETF's NETCONF WG has taken efforts in standardizing configuration management protocol, which allows high interoperability of configuration management. In addition to interoperability, high performance is also required in configuration management, but many researches have often discarded the performance aspect of it. In order to fill that void, this paper proposes methods to improve performance...