Configuration management is very important to maintain consistency and proper performance of any process. It integrates all steps in the developmental life style and ensure adherence to all essential requirements and stipulations. This practice is used generally by many organizations such as software related organizations, military engineering organizations and automobile industries. Previously it was only used in military engineering organizations. Nowadays IT industry is the biggest user of this process.

The key objectives and benefits of configuration management are:

• One of the major functions of this practice is to keep all records up-to-date in the IT infrastructure configuration and interrelations among them. This is not so easy task and it needs the cooperation between humans and software tools.

• This process is targeted to provide reliable and accurate information to the rest of the team of an organization about all the components of the IT infrastructure.

• It helps in faster resolution of a problem and provides better service quality. Proper management of this process increases the productivity and efficiency by reducing manual tasks and enables you to focus on other essential aspects. In this way, you can better utilize your resources.

• To be a successful manager in this field, you must plan effectively and test all features of this process before you use it in a environment of production. As a most effective application, a manager has the potential to affect each and every system in your organization. It can reduce your administrative overhead and total expenses of ownership.

Abilities of a configuration manager:

• They help in application management. They provide a set of resources and tools that can help you to create, manage, deploy and monitor all application in the industry.

• They monitor compliance setting effectively. They manage a set of resources and tools that can help you to track, assess and remediate the overall configuration compliance of client devices in the organization.

• They help in endpoint protection by providing security, anti viruses and effective application firewall management for computers in your organization.

• Effective inventory management is also possible with the help of this system. There are set of tools which can help identify and monitor of all important assets such as hardwares and softwares.

• It provides operating system deployment that means there is a provision of some tools to create OS images. Then you can use these images to deploy them to that computer which is being managed by an overseer of this section.

• There are some other qualities of this process that is easy out of band management, easy power management, easy query solutions, easy remote control, easy reporting through SQL server and easy software metering. You can get software updates very easily by the help of such set of tools and you can manage, deploy and monitor all software updates which have been implemented in your organization.