Configuration management (CM) is a process for system engineering for operational information throughout the system’s lifetime. Through a system of guidelines and functions relating to all the factors such as maintaining and establishing consistencies in any product lifetime and performance, its functionality as well as the special, if required, design requirements and or physical attributes that need to be maintained and processed.
Information systems, military vehicles, and complex systems used in the military such as advanced and electronic weapon systems are all part of the Configuration Management (CM) process to manage changes and upgrading if needed throughout the systems life cycles which they widely use in the military engineering organizations.
The CM process which is a valued process even outside the military and part of the IT service used for the management ITIL defines as standard, and in civil engineering and industrial engineering segments for domain models such as the designing, building and life spans of roads, dams, canals, and bridges.
There are five disciplines in Configuration management (CM) which are:
CM Planning and Management:
Configuration Identification (CI)
Configuration Control (CC)
Configuration (C)
Configuration Verification and Audit (CV&A)
