Configuration Inventory Analysis and Reporting
The initial step in effectively managing configuration integrity for auditing, compliance and change management is to identify exactly what you currently have in your IT infrastructure and how it’s configured. Most businesses today roll out servers, workstations and network devices configured in a known, approved way. However over time, as new applications are installed and configuration changes occur, it becomes difficult for IT to know exactly which components are installed on each machine across the enterprise. Additionally, disparate configuration information can often be found across multiple point solutions already in place, making it nearly impossible to obtain a consolidated view of your enterprise configurations without complex integration.
With the increasing complexity of today’s physical and virtual environments, you need and easier way to identify and collect in-depth configuration settings and discover “what you have” in your environment and aggregate this information to identify trends and correlations to be used as baselines without the overhead of yet another complex framework. ConfigWise is your solution.
Benefits of ConfigWise’s approach:
- Gain enterprise configuration visibility and support effective knowledge management and informed decision making with a central view of configuration change detail, quickly identifying trends and correlations
- Maintain a central configuration information repository without the overhead of a complicated framework; automatically builds a comprehensive software configuration inventory, including applications, configuration settings, files, registry settings, Group Policy Objects and more, including identification of prohibited applications
- Patent-pending wild-card discovery capabilities allow you to easily detect when new processes and applications are found on a target computer, even if they were not previously defined within a policy
- Daily, weekly or monthly collections based upon policies to obtain the desire level of information
- Utilize multiple collection methods with broad platform support for servers and workstations, using agentless collectors for Windows®, Hyper-V, Linux, VMware and network devices or leverage existing infrastructure solutions with optional integrated collection from System Center Configuration Manager/DCM and Operations Manager
