1. A system for actively managing an enterprise of configurable components, comprising: at least one individual component in a managed domain storing a configuration comprising a set of configuration parameters and type definitions; at least one document type definition defining a mapping of the configurations between at least two of the individual components, each specifying a configuration parameter with a relationship dependent on at least one other such configuration parameter; a management system registering each such individual component, validating the configuration parameters and type definitions based on a master set of configuration parameters and type definitions defined for an enterprise, and enforcing the mappings within the enterprise by dynamically probing the validated configurable parameters for each such individual component.