With increasing security threats to mission-critical network resources and serious legal consequences of information mis-management, enterprises everywhere are required not just to follow standard practices, internal security policies, stringent Government regulations and industrial guidelines, but also demonstrate that the policies are enforced and network devices remain compliant to the policies defined. Ensuring compliance has become a priority for network administrators nowadays. This drives them take extra care while changing configurations.
Network Configuration Manager helps administrators to define and enforce standards. The standards could be anything - ensuring the presence or absence of certain strings, commands or values. Network Configuration Manager will scan the configuration for compliance to the rules/ policy defined and report violations. Reports on policy compliance and violations are generated.