A Web based Configuration Management System for the Columbus Control Center using the Object oriented ENABLER Database from Softlab company

Abstract

The paper describes the principle structures of a Control Center with its Projects. The modeling of the reality is the next step towards a configuration management system. The reason for an own system instead of a COTS product is discussed together with the reason for an object oriented approach. To have a web based user interface within a server/client solution is after our opinion state of the art. The normal user is familiar with all kind of Web browsers and is not forced to learn a new user interface. The Configuration Management System also clearly distinguish between the different rules a user can have on application level. A user can be responsible for a subsystem but has at the same time only read access to other subsystems. And an other user class can only read in all subsystems. A central point is the Configuration Identification list - called CIDL - which allows a special view on some kind of information within the configuration database. If e.g. somebody is interested only in software items introduced since a time point she/he will get a list of the selected attributes. All the configuration items are hierarchical structured according to the users wish.