Infrastructure Configuration Management Services
Today most companies employ more than one network administrator. This can result in serious issues in case procedures and regulations are not properly outlined, when certain changes are made in the present network. Let us elucidate this with an example of a network administrator spending maximum time in securing the present infrastructure. There could be another network administrator who proceeds to make few modifications, for instance adding new servers to the network or adding few alterations to the security setting, without notifying any other administrators. This results in increasing vulnerability to the present IT infrastructure. This is where infrastructure configuration management comes into action.
Innovative ways for infrastructure configuration management
Today there are numerous ways in which an enterprise can execute change and configuration control. Every company would have its own way of going about in managing these changes. Eminent brands specializing data center infrastructure management have introduced new age solutions for configuration management that acts as an intuitive web-based command. It manages applications that extract real-time, significant data from an existing repository resulting in correct corporate audits, compliance and security vulnerability assessment. It also offers a unified view all through the infrastructure that includes network devices, IP services, and other physical and virtual platform
Other features of the infrastructure configuration management solutions are listed below:-
- Configuration Administration
It helps in streamlining administration, system logging and user management. The user access is dependent on roles and various privilege levels. Making use of the administration portal, the users are able to assist the configuration management database and the configuration components linked with it.
- Configuration Integrity
This helps to set up and retain a safe, real-time configuration repository of equipments and related IP services. This also helps the user to configure policies, approval, archives and rollback. The user is further able to set every global attribute related to IP services with this feature.
- Compliance and Change Reporting Services
This provides a competent reporting service that comprises technical, compliancy and other management reports. It also recognizes direct and indirect configuration-based vulnerabilities and derivations from well defined configuration processes and regulations against actual configuration information and the IP service data that is stored in the repository.
- Change Control
This service guarantees certification, release management, patch upgrades and image management for the overall infrastructure.
Furthermore, infrastructure configuration management helps to discover infrastructure resource configuration enabling the user to define the opportunities of auto-discovery services and comprises policy enforcement for a huge amount of box policies for regulatory compliance, operations and security. Simultaneously, the user is able to schedule multiple services to make sure that the infrastructure configurations are updated, are with the apt patch levels and operating efficiently.
Processing your request, Please wait....
