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Configuration management – the “C” in “FCAPS” (fault, configuration, accounting, performance and security) – has been much neglected, largely left to in-house improvisation and element-centric ...

A review of the configuration management tool, Chef Progress. Learn about its features, pricing, and benefits. Chef (aka Progress Chef) is a configuration management tool that helps organizations ...

Cfengine is known by many system administrators to be an excellent tool to automate manual tasks on UNIX and Linux-based machines. It also is the most comprehensive framework to execute administrative ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

The Central Technical Support Facility’s Configuration Management Branch manages the deployed force software baseline for the Army Chief Information Officer/G-6 to support interoperability ...

We test five network configuration management products: AlterPoint’s DeviceAuthority Suite, Dorado Software’s RedCell, Rendition Networks’ TrueControl 3.0, Tripwire’s Tripwire for Network Devices (TND ...

Opscode's Chef packs the power of Ruby and plentiful Cookbooks, but lacks features and polish found in other solutions Among the various configuration management frameworks available today, Opscode’s ...