A physical check on the infrastructure to determine whether the CMDB and the physical CIs correspond. This could be anything from detecting unauthorised or unlicensed items to checking on the status of an item.
See: functional configuration audit, physical configuration audit.
a check to ensure that all deliverable items on a project conform with one another and to the current specification. It ensures that relevant quality assurance procedures have been implemented and that there is consistency throughout project documentation.
Product configuration verification accomplished by inspecting documents, products, and records; and reviewing procedures, processes, and systems of operation to verify that the product has achieved its required attributes (performance requirements and functional constraints), and the product's design is accurately documented. Sometimes divided into separate functional and physical configuration audits.
The process of verifying that all the required Configuration Items have been produced, that the current version agrees with specified requirements, that the technical documentation completely and accurately describes the Configuration Items and that all Change Requests have been resolved. Regular Configuration Audits should be held. Inspection of plans, procedures, working practices, repositories and other records would be included in such audits.
the process of verifying that the configuration matches the baselines as documented
