A computer system consists of many components including hardware devices such as servers, routers, switches, and firewalls and software systems such as the operating system and applications. Each such component allows the operator to change its settings to customize its behavior.
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For Apache httpd.conf, one can also omit the interface address and copy the configuration file across without any changes – assuming that the web-server process is expected to be reachable through each of the network interfaces on the machine, as opposed to a specified one.
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Strictly speaking, ITIL CMDB stores dependencies about services and processes into a central repository in addition to the configuration items of different devices. A repository containing only configuration information does not strictly conform to the definition of CMDB, but the term CMDB is loosely used in industry to refer to such repositories. In this book, we are going with the looser definition used in the industry.
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Chandra Verma, D. (2009). Configuration Management. In: Principles of Computer Systems and Network Management. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89009-8_7
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