Change Management
Today's IT groups face challenges from changes in access, control and configurations. It is not enough to simply secure a static environment. You must demonstrate cost-effective, sustainable control of your IT infrastructure to ensure availability and compliance. You must be able to quickly and accurately detect changes and isolate problems caused by these changes. Trying to do this manually is obviously impossible.
An automated change monitoring solution that identifies and validates configuration changes is required, along with the ability to quickly remediate changes on your infrastructure components. The solution should also be able to address planned changes such as large software roll-outs and migration projects which can potentially have negative impacts if not planned or managed properly.
For both scenarios, (unscheduled and scheduled changes,) success hinges on knowing what you need to change, knowing what you shouldn’t change, and knowing if and when the change has occurred.
ECM for Change Management
ECM is the only scalable, cross-platform solution that automates system configuration planning, reporting and remediation across Windows, Linux and Unix platforms.
Change detection, based on a detailed initial assessment of the environment, can prevent system downtime, loss and many security breaches. Success comes from having visibility to the right data so administrators can quickly isolate and remediate discrepancies. ECM collects historical configuration data changes on a machine-by-machine basis, storing that data in a comprehensive Configuration Management Database (CMDB). This critical information provides detailed Change Log — a valuable resource for resolving issues and proving organizational compliance to regulatory auditors.
ECM’s superior change visibility and right click remediation can quickly help your organization eliminate unplanned system change and verify change that was intended. It can reduce the time it takes to resolve change-related problems by 50%.
ECM Change Management Features
Easy-to-use and deploy, Configuresoft's ECM helps you do more with less, providing:
- Centralized visibility of 80,000 configuration variables on every system
- Detail tracking of all ECM and non-ECM initiated change
- Customizable alerting and notification of change events
- Continuous enforcement of security and compliance policies by automatically resetting configurations to their pre-defined standards
- Collection and consolidation of system and user event logs
- UNIX, Linux and Windows environments coverage
With ECM, administrators can perform the necessary steps to identify and restore default system settings or undo selected unauthorized changes. Using built-in knowledge of the major compliance issues found in information security regulations, ECM’s compliance templates create, distribute, test and enforce the security policies required by audits, regulatory acts and international standards.