Configuration management ( CM ) is a process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product ’ s performance and functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design and operational information throughout its life.

The CM process is widely used by military engineering organizations to manage complex systems, such as weapon systems, vehicles, and information systems.

Outside of the military, the CM process is also used with IT service management as defined by ITIL, resp.

The CM process facilitates orderly management of system information and system changes for such beneficial purposes as to revise capability ; improve performance, reliability, or maintainability ; extend life ; reduce cost ; reduce risk and liability ; or correct defects.

This reverse engineering process is wasteful in terms of human and other resources and can be minimized or eliminated using CM.

The CM process became its own technical discipline sometime in the late 1960s when the DoD developed a series of military standards called the “ 480 series ” ( i. e., MIL-STD-480 and MIL-STD-481 ) that were subsequently issued in the 1970s.

Ideally the CM process is applied throughout the system lifecycle.

When the Kei car standards were changed in 1990, capacity was increased to 657 cc ( F6A ) in March, the Alto becoming the CL / CM / CN / CP21 in the process.

Punk defeated Knox in their first singles match ( qualifying for the Extreme Elimination Chamber at December to Dismember in the process ) as well as the rematch, after which Kelly Kelly celebrated CM Punk's victory over her boyfriend.

Cybermohalla ( CM ) is a network of five labs across the city of Delhi – locality labs in LNJP ( an informal settlement in Central Delhi ), Dakshinpuri ( a Resettlement Colony in South Delhi ) and Nangla Maachhi ( an informal settlement, in which surveys which mark the beginning of the State's process to displaced it to the outskirts of the city have begun ); a CM Research and Development Lab in the Ankur office and the Sarai Media Lab.

After the bidding process is complete, the hiring firm will select a source, and then, for the agreed-upon price, the CM acts as the hiring firm's factory, producing and shipping units of the design on behalf of the hiring firm.

5ESS runs on a Time-Space-Time ( TST ) topology in which the Time-Slot-Interchangers ( TSI ) in the Switching Modules ( SM ) assign each phone call to a time slot for routing through the CM.

CM emphasizes the functional relation between parts, subsystems, and systems for effectively controlling system change.

A complete CM program includes provisions for the storing, tracking, and updating of all system information on a component, subsystem, and system basis.

A structured CM program ensures that documentation ( e. g., requirements, design, test, and acceptance documentation ) for items is accurate and consistent with the actual physical design of the item.

Configuration Management ( CM ) as a formal management approach was developed by the USAF for the DoD in the 1950s as a technical management discipline for hardware material items — and it is now a standard practice in virtually every industry.

CM for information assurance, sometimes referred to as Secure Configuration Management, relies upon performance, functional, and physical attributes of IT platforms and products and their environments to determine the appropriate security features and assurances that are used to measure a system configuration state.

Availability of accurate and timely data is essential in order for CM to provide operational value and a lack of this can often be a limiting factor.

Update is also the term used by some CM tools ( CM +, PLS, SMS ) for the change package concept ( see changelist ).

Current WWE performer CM Punk used the song as his entrance theme in Ring of Honor for a period of time.

Lynn Johnston, CM, OM ( born May 28, 1947 ) is a Canadian cartoonist, well known for her comic strip For Better or For Worse, and was the first woman and first Canadian to win the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award.

* CM Yablon, ' The historical race competition for corporate charters and the rise and decline of New Jersey: 1880-1910 ' ( 2007 ) The Journal of Corporation Law

The Apollo Guidance Computer ( AGC ) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed onboard each Apollo Command Module ( CM ) and Lunar Module ( LM ).

" This Fire Burns " is formerly used as the entrance theme for WWE wrestler CM Punk ( along with his stables the Straight Edge Society and The New Nexus ) from 2006 until 2011 and was later re-released as " This Fire " on the As Daylight Dies Special Edition.

CM, Cm, cM or cm may stand for:

At Fatal 4 Way, Mysterio defeated Big Show, CM Punk and Jack Swagger to win the World Heavyweight Championship for the second time in his career.

Roger Paul Neilson, CM ( June 16, 1934 – June 21, 2003 ) was a National Hockey League coach, and was responsible for many innovations in the game.

The next night on Raw, it was announced that he had been traded to the Smackdown brand for SmackDown's CM Punk due to him destroying the Raw GM computer turning him face and ending the feud between the two.

On March 1, he defeated the champion CM Punk and Rey Mysterio in a Triple Threat match for the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship.

* Digital Communications Protocol ( DCP ) – A proprietary protocol for Definity and CM systems

Once the rendezvous procedure was completed between Falcon and the Endeavour CSM, both Irwin and Scott were busy moving items like rock samples into the CM and preparing the Lunar Module for final separation.

One notable example is CM Punk, who is straight edge both inside and outside the ring, and uses different aspects of the lifestyle to draw the desired crowd reaction depending on his character's alignment.

At Over the Limit, Mysterio faced CM Punk again with both previous stipulations in place ( Mysterio's allegiance to The SES vs Punk's hair.

These include: the Tagish Lake meteorite, which fell in Canada in 2000 and is intermediate between CI and CM chondrites ; Coolidge and Loongana 001, which form a grouplet that may be related to CV chondrites ; and Acfer 094, an extremely primitive chondrite that shares properties with both CM and CO groups.

Allmusic reviewer j. poet and The 9513 reviewer CM Wilcox both gave this album positive reviews for showing Diffie's bluegrass influences.

On the August 29 episode of Raw, Truth interfered in the Miz's match and the both of them attacked CM Punk.

At Night of Champions, Laurinaitis would try and help CM Punk win ( with Punk not wanting the help ), but was stopped by The Miz and R-Truth, who would attack both Triple H and CM Punk, believing the whole thing is one big conspiracy.

Seeking retribution, Miz and Truth later attacked both Triple H and CM Punk during their no disqualification match in the main event.

Veer lunges to save the CM, only to find that the sniper and the building are both missing.

For information assurance, CM can be defined as the management of security features and assurances through control of changes made to hardware, software, firmware, documentation, test, test fixtures, and test documentation throughout the life cycle of an information system.

The history of software configuration management ( SCM ) in computing can be traced back as early as the 1950s, when CM ( for Configuration Management ), originally for hardware development and production control, was being applied to software development.