Controls Configuration service overview 29-Nov-2012 GSI Workshop Configuration Management  Established as part of Systems Engineering  during the 1950s - hardware configuration management  as of 1980s includes software configuration management as well  Configuration Management comprises of the processes of:  Identifying and defining the items in a system  Controlling the change of these items throughout their lifecycle  Recording and reporting the status of items and change requests  Audit configuration items to verify conformance to specifications  Part of best practices and standards  part of ISO 9000, formalized by Information Technologies Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Control Objectives for IT (COBIT), IEEE standards, etc.
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