Model Driven Configuration Management -- A model-driven engineering approach for the configuration of IT system landscapes and IT infrastructures

While the capabilities of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) have been realized in many parts of software development, MDE support for IT system landscapes and IT infrastructures is barely adequate. Although common frameworks for Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) propose predefined artifacts and methods for this purpose, the transition between the design stage and the operating stage of software takes place manually. Time-consuming discovery procedures capture the current software configuration after the transition, store it in configuration databases and allow further analysis on the basis of reconstructed models.

The identified gap between EAM and IT operations shall be closed by model-driven configuration management so that

1. the deployment of software in an IT system landscape and
2. the configuration of the underlying IT infrastructure can be accomplished automatically and traceably during both the initial transition and later migration.

Model-Driven Configuration Management (MDCM), finally, means using MDE techniques to implement the requirements concerning the configuration of IT system landscape and IT infrastructures.

MDCM, which will be the outcome of my thesis, contributes to model-driven engineering, configuration management and data center automation as well as IT service management.

Articles:

• Herden, S. (2009): Model-Driven Configuration Management: A model-driven engineering approach for the configuration of IT system landscapes and IT infrastructures. In: Arndt, H.-K.; Krcmar, H. (Hrsg.) CVLBA Workshop 2009 - 3. Workshop des Centers for Very Large Business Applications (CVLBA), 13. Oktober 2009.
• Herden, S.; Patig, S.; Zwanziger, A.(2009): A Domain-Specific Language for Content Management Systems. In: Saake, G.; Sattler, K.-U.; Höpfner, H. (Hrsg.) Datenbank Spektrum, Nr. 30. d.punkt Verlag: Heidelberg. pp. 30-38.
• Herden, S.; Patig, S.; Zwanziger, A.(2009): A Domain-Specific Language for Content Management Systems. Technical Report, Instituts für Wirtschaftsinformatik der Universität Bern, Nr. 217
• Blendinger, A.; Herden, S.(2009): Modell und Modellbildung im Kontext von Very Large Business Applications. Technical Report Nr. 09-01. Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, FIN/ITI VLBA Lab
• Brandt, T., Herden, S., Minke, M., Zwanziger, A. (2008): AGWI//online Plattform: Eine personalisierte und serviceorientierte IT-Infrastruktur für das Community-Management an Hochschulen, Technical Report Nr. 08-12, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, FIN/ITI VLBA Lab
• Herden, S., Zwanziger, A. (2008): Bewertung von VLBA-Architekturvarianten: Eine Fallstudie zur Einführung von OpenCms und der SAP® e-Recruiting Plattform. Technical Report Nr. 08-10, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, FIN/ITI VLBA Lab
• Grabski, B.; Günther, S.; Herden, S.; Krüger, L.; Rautenstrauch, C.; Zwanziger, A.: Very Large Business Applications. In: Informatik Spektrum. Bd. 30, Nr. 4, August 2007, S. 259-263.

Book:

• Herden S.; Marx Gómez J.; Rautenstrauch C.; Zwanziger A. (2006): Software-Architekturen für das E-Business, Springer Berlin, ISBN 3-540-25821-3

• IT-Infrastructure Modeling Language (IIML) - André Zwanziger (VLBA Lab)