What is the configuration item?

Configuration Item (CI) is part of the Information Technology Information Technology Library method for management. It is the smallest main part of the configuration management system (CMS), which is stored and monitored under what is called the configuration database (CMDB). The collection of configuration items in the database uses information technology administrator (IT) to monitor relationships with other items and monitoring of IT or service cycle. Configuration items can be identified in IT services as requiring management, including computer hardware, software, protocols and processes.

After identifying and entering in CMDB, the configuration item becomes a configuration record. The record describes the parameters of CI and its relationship with other CIS. Because virtually anything can be CI, there may be a little confusion with regard to potential granularity. Configurations and their items may be higher -level concepts such as a description of a process that is threeeven to manage for changes over time. Within this process, however, there may be partial components, such as computers or people who perform this process, further identified as CIS.

This graded structure usually finds configuration records in a number of databases, perhaps even managed by different levels in the IT Services menu. For example, HELP Desk with a process for hardware on site will be entered into the CMDB HELP desk as a configuration item. Hardware items for replacement, such as a hard disk, are also stored in CMDB as CIS, along with the staff that moves throughout the organization and enact physical replacement. In this scenario, the highest level of HELP desk, where the hardware replacement process is under it, then another tier for hardware and so on.

Identification of configuration items varies greatly depending on countless factors. Usually most components are includedENT concerning the start of the project, but as the project life cycle proceeds, changes may be necessary. The recognition of the new CIS for the system is evaluated in terms of the necessity and their relationships, while older CIs accept regular audits to ensure their lasting validity. In this way, CMDB is kept clean from unnecessary records and other requirements analysis can occur on the basis of accurate data.