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- Introduction to Configuration Manager
- Universal CMDB Configuration Manager Overview
- Configuration Modeling and Analysis
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Configuration Modeling and Analysis
One of the basic areas of functionality in Configuration Manager is the ability to measure your IT environment against set standards. The underlying theory is that CIs serving the same purpose should have a similar configuration, to reduce maintenance costs and improve predictability. The Configuration Analysis module enables you to compare selected composite CIs to a configuration model which captures a standard in the organization. This can help you measure how similar they are.
The analysis consists of a comparison between the selected CIs and a custom configuration model which you construct to meet your organization's needs. The criteria for determining the degree of similarity between the CIs and the model include both the topology of the composite CIs as well as selected attributes of the CIs. The analysis is an iterative process that consists of two steps - model definition and comparison analysis. You determine a model, compare it against a given set of CIs, and drill down into the details of the comparison to locate configuration discrepancies or refine the model and rerun the comparison.
One use-case of this analysis is the ability to compare the configuration of different CIs in different environments. For example, comparing an application in the production environment to the same application in the staging environment could help to provide an explanation for production incidents originating under a tested configuration.
For details on the configuration analysis process, see Baseline Analysis.
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