IT operations are constantly challenged with achieving and maintaining continuous operational, regulatory, and security compliance across the data center in addition to reducing power consumption and energy costs. Server Configuration Manager (SCM) enables IT Operations to deliver automated and optimized Lean IT, secure and compliance Clean IT, and energy efficient Green IT.

• Server Configuration Manager (SCM) - provides configuration intelligence and enterprise visibility to help you control your IT infrastructure, virtual sprawl, and understand planned and unplanned changes while maintaining continuous compliance across the enterprise
• Server Advisor - provides security patch assessment, remediation and verification and automatically alerts enterprises to security bulletins issued by Microsoft
• SCM for Virtualization - addresses the complexities associated with security and compliance in virtualized environments and provides visibility, control and management across the VMware ESX server farm from a central console
• Compliance Checkers - free downloadable, fully functional products for checking compliance of your environment
• Service Desk Integration - enables automation of operational processes, linking change and configuration management, as well as automating the intersecting transitions from the change approval processes to the implementation and verification processes, and closing the loop back to the Service Desk to complete the entire change process
• SCM for Active Directory - spans multiple forests and domains to collect configuration data, objects and changes to streamline Active Directory management and compliance automation
• Configuration Analytics Manager (CAM) - provides critical insight into the IT infrastructure to improve the effectiveness of people, processes and technology. Additionally, CAM provides actionable information to improve IT processes such as change management, patch management, security and audit compliance
• Compliance Toolkits - rule-based templates, reports and dashboards which easily plug into ECM to ensure security and operational compliance within a focused area
• RSCA - service engagement designed to allow organizations to quickly validate their actual system state against recommended security, system and configuration settings