View a log of configuration changes on any given machine to pinpoint which settings have been modified. Besides monitoring, configuration management involves adjusting configurations to enforce compliance with corporate standards, change passwords across the company when someone leaves, and install patches to machines running a particular application. Finally, administrators do not have the time to manually audit systems for critical configuration changes. To this end, a configuration management system can send user-defined alerts when sensitive configuration settings are modified. These alerts summarize configuration activity.
Configuration management lets companies support technology and business objectives.
It helps systems administrators prevent system outages and break-ins by monitoring and controlling configuration changes, while allowing companies to exert a much greater level of control and extract a much higher level of value from their network infrastructures. Dennis Moreau is CTO of Configuresoft. As increasingly powerful processing capabilities are embedded into ever- smaller devices, the computing landscape is shifting toward physically smaller gadgets. Explore the issues involved in using Java to program these emergent devices. Click to Download.