Do you belong to the team asked to evaluate a couple of product claiming to manage change and configuration? Befor e deciding on one of these configuration management product, ensure that you have checked at least all of the following:
Install and play around with it to understand the value that would be added to your business.
Check the related security issues. Is it agent-less or agent-based product? Understand the cost and time involved in deploying the product in the data centre.
Select agentless one if you do not want it to be intrusive. However, if you want deep knowledge about your environment, you could as well go for agent-based.
Ensure that it is vendor independent. It should also provide you with the flexibility in managing softwares, hardwares and networking devices.
Check if configuration management is provided for a wide scope of configurations.
Check if rule compliance engine is provided using which you could enforce rules on certain important configuration parameters.
Check if the reporting infrastructure is provided using which you could do the audit of IT infrastructure. Periodic auditing of configuration parameters should be possible.
Check the intuitive nature and has well defined work-flow.
Check if the change detection engine is provided. Change of configuration parameters over a period of time should be detected and recorded.
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