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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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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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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.Starting Price: $1600 for NetCrunch 50 nodes -
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GLPI
TECLIB
GLPI is an incredible Service Management software based on open source technologies. It helps you plan and manage IT changes in an easy way, solve problems efficiently, automate your business processes and gain control over your IT infrastructure. Key features of GLPI: 1. Service Desk 2. Asset management and automatic inventory 3. Rationality for data quality control 4. Administrative and financial management of assets 5. Software inventory and licences management 6. Knowledge and frequently asked questions 7. Statistics and reports 8. Profound integration 9. Android-based devices inventoryStarting Price: €19/month/user -
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AWS CodePipeline
Amazon
AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates. CodePipeline automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process every time there is a code change, based on the release model you define. This enables you to rapidly and reliably deliver features and updates. AWS CodePipeline can easily be extended to adapt to your specific needs. You can use our pre-built plugins or your own custom plugins in any step of your release process. For example, you can pull your source code from GitHub, use your on-premises Jenkins build server, run load tests using a third-party service, or pass on deployment information to your custom operations dashboard. With AWS CodePipeline, you can immediately begin to model your software release process. There are no servers to provision or set up. -
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SaltStack
SaltStack
SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. With the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured systems. As soon as an issue is detected, this powerful automation helps you and your team remediate it, keeping your infrastructure securely configured, compliant, and up-to-date. The SecOps suite includes both Comply and Protect. Comply scans and remediates against CIS, DISA-STIG, NIST, PCI, HIPAA compliance standards. And Protect scans for vulnerabilities and patches and updates your operating systems. -
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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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Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
Red Hat
Built on the open Eclipse Che project, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces uses Kubernetes and containers to provide any member of the development or IT team with a consistent, secure, and zero-configuration development environment. The experience is as fast and familiar as an integrated development environment on your laptop. OpenShift Dev Spaces is included with your OpenShift subscription and is available in the Operator Hub. It provides development teams a faster and more reliable foundation on which to work, and it gives operations centralized control and peace of mind. Get coding today with our free Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift, which includes OpenShift Dev Spaces to try out at no cost. Developers can focus more on coding, with their application and development environment containerized and running on OpenShift - all without needing to understand the details of Kubernetes. Administrators can easily manage and monitor workspaces as any other Kubernetes resource.Starting Price: $30 per month -
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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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SUSE Manager
SUSE
SUSE Manager was designed to help your enterprise DevOps and IT Operations teams reduce complexity and regain control of your IT assets with a single tool to manage Linux systems across a variety of hardware architectures, hypervisors as well as container, IoT and cloud platforms. It automates Linux server and IoT device provisioning, patching and configuration for faster, consistent and repeatable server deployment helping to optimize operations and reduce costs. And with automated monitoring, tracking, auditing and reporting of your systems, VMs, and containers across your development, test and production environments, you can ensure compliance with internal security policies and external regulations. -
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BelManage
Belarc
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
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
SDM Software, Inc.
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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Chef Infra
Progress Software
Chef® Infra® configuration management software eliminates manual efforts and ensures infrastructure remains consistent and compliant over its lifetime — even in the most complex, heterogenous, and large-scale environments. Define configurations and policies as code that are testable, enforceable and can be delivered at scale as part of automated pipelines. Ensure configurations only change if a system diverges from the desired defined state and automatically correct configuration drift, if needed. Manage Windows and Linux systems running on prem, ARM systems running in the cloud or Macs laptops running at the edge all the same way. Use simple declarative definitions for common tasks or easily extend them to support the most unique environmental requirements. Enforce policy by converging the system to the state declared by the various resources. Reduce risks by iterating on policy changes before pushing them to production.Starting Price: $127 per year -
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Saint Security Suite
Carson & SAINT
This single, fully integrated solution conducts active, passive and agent-based assessments while its extensive flexibility evaluates risk according to each business. SAINT’s impressive, flexible and scalable scanning capabilities set it apart from many others in this space. SAINT has partnered with AWS, allowing its customers to take advantage of AWS’s efficient scanning. Should subscribers prefer, SAINT also offers a Windows scanning agent. Security teams can schedule scans easily, configure them with considerable occurrence flexibility and fine-tune them with advanced options. As a vulnerability management solution, SAINT Security Suite’s security research and development efforts focus on investigation, triage, prioritization, and coverage of vulnerabilities of the highest levels of severity and importance. Not willing to settle for just blanket coverage and raw data, our analysts focus on developing tools for what matters to our customers.Starting Price: $1500.00/year/user -
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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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Split
Harness
In a world where product development teams are pressured to do more with less, Split’s Feature Data Platform™ gives you the confidence to move fast without breaking things. Set up feature flags and safely deploy to production, controlling who sees which features and when. Connect every flag to contextual data, so you know if your features are making things better or worse, and act without hesitation. Effortlessly conduct feature experiments like A/B tests without slowing down. Split is a feature management platform that takes the extra step with experts to support you, online courses to help you learn as you go, and a developer-oriented culture that puts our customers at the center. Whether you’re looking to increase your releases, to decrease your MTTR, or to ignite your dev team without burning them out–Change the way the work gets done with Split. Switch on a free account today, schedule a demo to learn more, or contact us for further questions. -
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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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SystemLink
NI
SystemLink eliminates the manual tasks when keeping test systems current and healthy. From automating updates to monitoring system health, SystemLink delivers key information that improves situational awareness and test readiness to help you deliver quality across the product lifecycle. With SystemLink, you ensure that software configurations are accurate, and that test equipment complies with calibration and quality standards. Leveraging an automation and connectivity platform, SystemLink aggregates test and measurement data from all test systems into a centralized data repository. Users have ready access to asset utilization, calibration forecasts as well as test result history, trends, and production metrics data to make proactive decisions on the capital expense, maintenance events, and test or product modifications. -
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Cruz Operations Center (CruzOC)
Dorado Software
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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Netwrix Strongpoint
Netwrix
Netwrix Strongpoint helps organizations build smart controls that automate the hardest parts of SOX compliance management and audit reporting, access reviews and segregation of duties, data security, and change management. Netwrix Strongpoint works with NetSuite and Salesforce. With tight controls to track and protect what’s in scope, Strongpoint customers are able to produce airtight audit reporting on demand, greatly reducing the cost and time of SOX compliance prep. See what’s safe to change and what requires additional review. Then, use highly sophisticated impact analysis tools to streamline the discovery process. Not subject to SOX? Netwrix Strongpoint’s award-winning data security, configuration management, and change management tools help businesses running complex business systems maintain transparency and harden their business-critical applications against security risks.Starting Price: $1000/month -
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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
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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Microsoft Configuration Manager
Microsoft
Microsoft Configuration Manager is a comprehensive systems management solution that enhances IT productivity by automating tasks such as the secure deployment of applications, software updates, and operating systems across servers, desktops, and laptops. It offers real-time device management, cloud-powered analytics for both on-premises and internet-based devices and compliance settings management. It integrates seamlessly with Microsoft technologies including Intune for co-managing diverse mobile device platforms, Azure for hosting cloud services, and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for software update management. Additionally, it utilizes Active Directory Domain Services and Microsoft Entra ID for security and configuration, as well as SQL Server for database management, integrating with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) for comprehensive reporting.Starting Price: Free -
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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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TeamCity
JetBrains
Powerful Continuous Integration out of the box. Define up to 100 build configurations (jobs) and run unlimited builds. Run up to 3 builds concurrently. Add extra agents when necessary. Utilize the full potential of all the TeamCity features. This product includes features identical to those available to our largest customers. Receive peer support through the forum, alternatively file a bug or feature request, and vote for them in our public issue tracker. Unlimited users, unlimited build time. No strings attached. Build, check and run automated tests on the server even before committing your changes – keeping your code base clean at all times. Don’t wait for a build to finish to discover that something is wrong. Form your project tree to inherit parent settings and permissions. Create templates with common settings and inherit any number of build configurations from them.Starting Price: $299.00/year -
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Puppet Enterprise
Puppet
Puppet is redefining what’s possible for continuous operations. Easily automate your environment to deliver at cloud speed and cloud scale with products that are responsive and predictive by design. 90% of the largest US-based companies rely on Puppet’s infrastructure as code to simplify the complexity of modern IT infrastructure. At Puppet, we’re redefining what is possible for continuous operations. We empower IT operations teams to easily automate their infrastructure, enabling them to deliver at cloud speed and cloud scale. Our scalable approach to infrastructure automation enables teams to innovate rapidly, with security and compliance baked in. We’re leading the way from find-and-fix to predicting at scale. No more surprises. We move at the speed of business, delivering infrastructure automation software that gives your teams back their time, and promises them, and your business. peace of mind.Starting Price: $120 per month -
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Microsoft System Center
Microsoft
Stay in control of your IT—across your environment and platforms—with System Center. Simplify the deployment, configuration, management, and monitoring of your infrastructure and virtualized software-defined datacenter, while increasing agility and performance. Diagnose and troubleshoot infrastructure, workload, or application issues to maintain reliability and high performance. Deploy and manage your software-defined datacenter with a comprehensive solution for networking, storage, compute, and security. -
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HashiCorp Consul
HashiCorp
A multi-cloud service networking platform to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud. Real-time health and location information of all services. Progressive delivery and zero trust security with less overhead. Receive peace of mind that all HCP connections are secured out of the box. Gain insight into service health and performance metrics with built-in visualization directly in the Consul UI or by exporting metrics to a third-party solution. Many modern applications have migrated towards decentralized architectures as opposed to traditional monolithic architectures. This is especially true with microservices. Since applications are composed of many inter-dependent services, there's a need to have a topological view of the services and their dependencies. Furthermore, there is a desire to have insight into health and performance metrics for the different services. -
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AWS Config
Amazon
AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. With Config, you can review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources, dive into detailed resource configuration histories, and determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines. This enables you to simplify compliance auditing, security analysis, change management, and operational troubleshooting. AWS Config is designed to be your primary tool to perform configuration audit and compliance verification of both your AWS and third-party resources. You can publish the configuration of third-party resources such as GitHub repositories, Microsoft Active Directory resources, or any on-premises server into AWS.Starting Price: $0.001 per rule evaluation -
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OpenText Dimensions CM
OpenText
Allows for collaborative parallel development to minimize rework, visualize and reduce conflict, and lower risk while improving team velocity and throughput. Preserves the integrity of known baseline configurations, simplifies rollback and recovery, streamlines approval, and maintains integrity when automating builds and deployments. Identifying issues earlier in the lifecycle saves considerable time and effort. CM allows issues to be identified as soon as a code commit occurs via Pulse. CI build, unit test and code review all drive shift left actions. Features integration with developer friendly repositories and IDEs (such as Git, IntelliJ, Eclipse and Microsoft .net), detailed auditing and logging, and immutable versioning and history. Minimizes the preparation and effort required for audits and regulatory compliance with comprehensive and tamperproof history and audit trails.