Best Configuration Management Software

Compare the Top Configuration Management Software as of November 2025

What is Configuration Management Software?

Configuration management software is used to track and manage the configuration of systems, networks, and software throughout their lifecycle. It allows teams to automate the process of setting up and maintaining consistent configurations across multiple environments, reducing human error and ensuring standardization. This software helps monitor changes, providing version control and audit trails to maintain system integrity and compliance. It is especially useful in complex IT infrastructures, enabling teams to deploy, update, and scale systems efficiently. Configuration management software ultimately improves system reliability, reduces downtime, and facilitates collaboration among development and operations teams. Compare and read user reviews of the best Configuration Management software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Unimus

    Unimus

    NetCore j.s.a. (Unimus)

    Taking control of the configuration of your network equipment is what Unimus offers. Supporting over 400 devices from 150 vendors, Unimus has an expanding suite of tools for Network Administrators working with networks of a dozen to thousands of devices. Unimus allows you to quickly search your network's configuration, both history and the active configuration. So you can audit how your network is configured, when it was changed, and even comment those changes for tracking and collaboration. From there, you can stay on top of your network's configuration with notifications through Email, Pushover, and Slack. You can also easily integrate Unimus into your workflow with its powerful API and NMS connectors. Take the helm of your network through Unimus with Mass Configuration Pushes or the integrated Device CLI — allowing you to make changes to a single device or thousands in seconds or on your schedule. Gain confidence, clarity, and control over your infrastructure with Unimus.
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    Starting Price: $5.90 per device per year
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    AdRem NetCrunch

    AdRem NetCrunch

    AdRem Software

    NetCrunch is a powerful, scalable, all-in-one network monitoring system built for modern IT environments. It supports agentless monitoring of thousands of devices, covering SNMP, servers, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), traffic flows (NetFlow, sFlow), logs, and custom data via REST or scripts. With 670+ monitoring packs and dynamic views, it automates discovery, configuration, alerting, and automates self-healing actions for efficient remote remediation in response to alerts. Its node-based licensing eliminates sensor sprawl and complexity, providing a clear, cost-effective path to scale. Real-time dashboards, policy-driven setup, advanced alert tuning and 40+ alert actions including remote script execution, service restart, process kill or device reboot-make NetCrunch ideal for organizations replacing legacy tools like PRTG, SolarWinds, or WhatsUp Gold. Fast to deploy and future-proof. Can be installed on prem, self hosted in the cloud, or mixed.
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    Starting Price: $1600 for NetCrunch 50 nodes
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    NMIS

    NMIS

    FirstWave

    FirstWave’s NMIS is a complete network management system that provides fault, performance, and configuration management, performance graphs, and threshold alerts. Business rules allow for highly granular notification policies with many types of notification methods. NMIS consolidates multiple tools into one system, ready for Network Engineers to use. Scalable, flexible, open, and simple to implement and maintain, NMIS is the Network Management System that underpins the operations of over one hundred thousand organizations worldwide – making it one of the most widely used open-source Network Management Systems in the world today. FirstWave enables partners, including some of the world’s largest telcos and managed service providers (MSPs), to protect their customers from cyber-attacks, while rapidly growing cybersecurity services revenues at scale. FirstWave provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution for network discovery, management, and cybersecurity for its partners globally.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Scalr

    Scalr

    Scalr

    Scalr's Terraform Automation & Collaboration Software (TACOS) is a remote state & operations backend for Terraform with full CLI support, integration with OPA, a hierarchical configuration model, and quality of life features.
    Starting Price: $20/user/month
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    Ansible

    Ansible

    Red Hat

    Ansible is a radically simple automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Ansible Automation Platform has grown over the past years to provide powerful automation solutions that work for operators, administrators and IT decision makers across a variety of technology domains. It’s a leading enterprise automation solution from Red Hat®, a thriving open source community, and the de facto standard technology of IT automation. Scale automation, manage complex deployments, and speed productivity with an enterprise automation platform that can be used across entire IT teams. Red Hat or partner consulting services help you advance your end-to-end automation journey for faster time to value.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Netreo

    Netreo

    Netreo

    Netreo is the most comprehensive full stack IT infrastructure management and observability platform. We provide a single source of truth for proactive performance and availability monitoring for large enterprise networks, infrastructure, applications and business services. Our solution is used by: - IT Executives to have full visibility from the business service right down into the infrastructure and network that supports it. - IT Engineering departments as a decision support system for capacity planning, and architecting modern solutions. - IT Operations teams for real time visibility into what is failing in their environment, what bottlenecks exist and who it is affecting. We provide all of these insights for systems and vendor mixes in large heterogeneous and constantly evolving environments. We have an extensive and growing list of supported vendors (over 350 integrations) including network vendors, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud platforms and others.
    Starting Price: $5/resource/mo
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    BelManage
    BelManage allows users to reduce their software license and maintenance costs, monitor their cybersecurity status and configuration details. BelManage is based on Belarc’s Cloud architecture, uses a single Intranet server and database, and automatically creates an accurate and up-to-date central repository (CMDB) of software, hardware and security configuration details. Belarc’s cloud architecture allows users to simplify and automate the monitoring of all of their desktops, laptops, servers and virtual machines throughout the world, using a single server and database. The BelManage server can be located on premises, on our customer's cloud or hosted by Belarc via SaaS.
    Starting Price: $10 per computer
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    UVexplorer

    UVexplorer

    UV Networks

    UVexplorer PRO automatically and quickly discovers all of the information about the devices on your network and the connections between them. UVexplorer creates network maps for documentation, meetings, presentations, sharing with your boss, or hanging on the wall. Export UVexplorer's automated network maps to PRTG, LucidChart, Microsoft Visio™, PDF, and SVG file types. UVexplorer also backups and provides change notifications for configurations of your network devices, such as routers, switches, and firewalls. Track how device configurations change over time. With UVexplorer's PRTG Connector, add powerful network discovery, detailed device inventory, and automatic network maps to PRTG Network Monitor. Capture detailed device and network inventory information to help meet documentation requirements of governmental regulations like PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, SOX, etc. Analyze and solve network and device problems with UVexplorer's suite of diagnostic tools.
    Starting Price: $1,795 per year
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    Change Manager for Group Policy/Intune
    Change Manager for Group Policy/Intune brings modern change control and governance to customers that rely on Windows Group Policy and Intune day in and day out. Securely delegate access to GPO editing, container linking and Intune profiles and their assignments, with approval-based workflows. View differences and search for settings between versions of GPOs, containers and Intune profiles and rollback, undelete or schedule deployment of changes–all from a modern web interface. Whether you are new to GPO (and Intune) Change Control or looking for an alternative to Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM), CMGPI can meet your needs. Bring Security and Governance to your Windows configuration environments.
    Starting Price: based on active computers
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    Xurrent

    Xurrent

    Xurrent

    Xurrent is an enterprise service management (ESM) solution for seamless collaboration between internal and external service providers. Xurrent is the only ESM solution that makes it possible for all internal departments, like IT, HR and Facilities, to work together seamlessly with each other, as well as with the managed service providers to which some services have been outsourced. In addition to supporting the ITIL processes, Xurrent also provides fully integrated knowledge management, time tracking and project management capabilities. For enterprise employees, Xurrent is the Self Service app that is always there for them whenever they need some help. Apart from Xurrent's ITSM and ESM capabilities that support the ITIL and KCS practices, Xurrent uniquely supports the SIAM approach. This management approach is becoming increasingly important as enterprises rely on ever-more external providers.
    Starting Price: $0 per month Freemium
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    Octopus Deploy

    Octopus Deploy

    Octopus Deploy

    Founded in 2012, Octopus Deploy enables successful deployments for over 25,000 companies around the world. Prior to Octopus Deploy, release orchestration and DevOps automation tools were clunky, limited to large enterprises and didn't deliver what they promised. Octopus Deploy was the first release automation tool to gain popular adoption by software teams, and we continue to invent new ways for Dev & Ops teams to automate releases and deliver working software to production. Runbook automation in Octopus sits side-by-side with your deployments and gives you control over your infrastructure and applications. Automate operations tasks like routine maintenance and emergency incident recovery. Flexible, role-based access control lets you manage who can deploy to production, change your deployment process, infrastructure, and more.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Cruz Operations Center (CruzOC)
    CruzOC is a scalable multi-vendor network management and IT operations tool for robust yet easy-to-use netops. Key features of CruzOC’s integrated and automated management include performance monitoring, configuration management, and lifecycle management for 1000s of vendors and converging technologies. With CruzOC, administrators have implicit automation to control their data center operations and critical resources, improve network and service quality, accelerate network and service deployments, and lower operating costs. The result is comprehensive and automated problem resolution from a single-pane-of-glass. Cruz Monitoring & Management. NMS, monitoring & analytics -- health, NPM, traffic, log, change. Automation & configuration management -- compliance, security, orchestration, provisioning, patch, update, configuration, access control. Automated deployment -- auto-deploy, ZTP, remote deploy. Deployments available on-premise and from the cloud.
    Starting Price: $1350
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    Cruz RMM

    Cruz RMM

    Dorado Software

    Single Pane-of-glass to automate your customers' IT operations. Cruz Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) is designed for Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs) to proactively and remotely monitor and manage the IT infrastructure, networks, client endpoints, and computers, from anywhere! Whether you are an MSP looking for ways to enhance your business, or a reseller/VAR breaking into the MSP business, Dorado can help you monitor and manage your environment securely and remotely from a single console. All of this is included in an affordable, easy-to-use, and scalable solution. Dorado Software is a leading provider of resource management, performance monitoring, and service orchestration software to automate cloud operations across converged infrastructure fabrics. Dorado helps operators and IT professionals monitor, configure, and manage converged infrastructures (physical and virtual storage, servers, networking devices), virtualized network functions, and cloud services.
    Starting Price: $1350
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    CruzNow

    CruzNow

    Dorado Software

    CruzNow is a SaaS-based, single-pane-of-glass infrastructure management solution for IT teams to configure, monitor, troubleshoot, and manage your multi-vendor/technology infrastructure including routers, switches, servers, operating systems, software stacks, any physical or virtual device! By moving your infrastructure management to a SaaS solution, you can reduce overhead, save time and money, and free IT staff to focus on more strategic initiatives.
    Starting Price: Contact Dorado for pricing.
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    Cruz Wireless Controller
    Cruz Wireless Controller lets IT departments view, monitor, and configure multi-vendor wireless IT infrastructures. It provides end-to-end visibility and control over the wireless devices on your network. With Cruz Wireless Controller, automate discovery, performance monitoring, configuration backup and restore, firmware management, scheduling, traffic flow analysis, configuration audit capabilities, scripting, reporting, and more, all from a single-pane-of-glass and an affordable price. --Performance statistics, real-time health monitoring, firmware/SW management, backup, restore, deploy, one-to-one or groups, enforce device security policies, push and monitor configurations to wireless controllers, APs, and network switches. --Trigger network health alerts, automate repetitive tasks, simplify live/remote troubleshooting, ensure service availability, and multi-vendor features. --IT departments can simplify deployment and management with a single tool to manage their operations
    Starting Price: $1350
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    Resolve

    Resolve

    Resolve Systems

    Resolve is the #1 IT automation and orchestration platform, powering more than a million automations every day from simple, high-volume tasks to incredibly complex processes that go well beyond what you imagine is automatable. With more than a decade of automation expertise under our belts, we know how to build an intelligent automation and orchestration platform to meet the growing demands faced by today’s IT Operations and Network Operations teams. In fact, millions of automations are powered by Resolve on a daily basis… many of which go well beyond what you imagine is automatable. We know it sounds impossible, but it’s true. Just ask the customers who have cracked the code on tough automations like PIM testing, updating active load balancers, CUCM onboarding in seconds, true end-to-end patch management, interacting with Watson for NLP, maintaining infrastructure in segregated networks and hybrid cloud deployments, and more. Keep reading to see how we do it.
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    Itential

    Itential

    Itential

    Itential is the only automation and orchestration solution built to support both network and cloud, making it easy for enterprise and service provider organizations to maintain network compliance, reduce manual operations, and simplify network management. The Itential Automation Platform is a low-code solution that seamlessly connects IT systems with network technologies for end-to-end network configuration, compliance, and automation. With Itential’s industry-leading patented network automation and orchestration solutions, network and cloud teams can: • Consolidate, Organize & Modernize Your CLI Automation Assets • Use Pre-Built Automations or Design & Build Your Own Automation Workflows • Backup, Manage, & Validate Network Configurations • Integrate with Everything in Your Environment • Manage, Measure, & Scale Automation Across your Organization
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