Configuration management is a term that describes the act of controlling how IT environments are configured. It helps to ensure consistency, reliability, and availability of these environments by making changes in one place and replicating across all systems. It also ensures that any updates or patches are applied correctly across an environment. Configuration Management can be done at different levels, from individual workstations to entire enterprise networks with Management solutions like VMware vRealize Automation (vRA).

Why is this important?

Configuration-Management is a crucial part of any IT team’s responsibilities, providing greater control and visibility into their data center. It can be done manually or through the use of open-source tools like Ansible for Configuration Orchestration; Puppet, Chef, SaltStack (Salt), and CFEngine for Configuration Automation; Nagios Core/Observer/NSClient++ to monitor services across an environment; Collect to gather critical CPU & Memory Performance statistics from Windows systems; Perform Metrics Collector collects performance counters on DCs.
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