]> League of Professional System Administrators - FAQ http://lopsa.org/taxonomy/term/173/all A smattering of various FAQs en LOPSA FAQ http://lopsa.org/LOPSAFAQ <ol> <li> <a href="LOPSAFAQ#lopsa">What is LOPSA?</a> <li> <a href="LOPSAFAQ#pronounce">How do you pronounce LOPSA?</a> <li> <a href="LOPSAFAQ#benefits">What benefits do I get for joining?</a> <li> <a href="LOPSAFAQ#tickets">What should I do if I notice a problem on the website or mail lists?</a> <li> <a href="LOPSAFAQ#donate">How can I donate money to help fund LOPSA?</a> <li> <a href="LOPSAFAQ#sage">I see references to SAGE on your site. What is SAGE?</a> </ol> <h3><a name=lopsa>What is LOPSA?</a></h3> LOPSA is the League of Professional System Administrators. <h3><a name=pronounce>How do you pronounce LOPSA?</a></h3> FAQ Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:13:20 -0800 doug Configuration Management FAQ http://lopsa.org/ConfigMgmtFAQ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.5: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" /> <title>config-mgmt FAQ</title> <style type="text/css"> /* :Author: David Goodger :Contact: goodger@python.org :Date: $Date: 2006-05-21 22:44:42 +0200 (Sun, 21 May 2006) $ :Revision: $Revision: 4564 $ :Copyright: This stylesheet has been placed in the public domain. 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Because most tools have their own mailing lists, this list generally only covers general topics, or the integration of multiple tools.</p> </li> <li><p class="first"><strong>What is &quot;Configuration Management&quot; as covered by this list?</strong></p> <p>There are a few definitions out there that are candidates, and <a class="reference" href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;c2coff=1&amp;safe=off&amp;client=firefox&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&amp;oi=defmore&amp;q=define:Configuration+Management">Google defines</a> it in many ways. A good one is:</p> <p><em>The process of identifying and defining the deliverable product set in a system, controlling the release and change of these items throughout the system life cycle, recording and reporting the status of product items and change requests, and verifying the completeness and correctness of the product items.</em> (<a class="reference" href="http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/acme/scm-defs.html">ASC</a>)</p> <p>One generally only discusses configuration management in the context of providing a tool to help with it, so there is an implied level of automation when people discuss it, even if automation isn't mentioned in the definition.</p> </li> FAQ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:48:28 -0700 doug