Ventajas a la Hora de Usar Gestión de Configuraciones

The benefits of correct Configuration Management include, among other things:

• Faster problem resolution, thus giving better quality of service. A common source of problems is the incompatibility between different CIs, out-of-date drivers, etc. Having to detect these errors without an up-to-date CMDB can considerably lengthen the time taken to solve a problem.
• More efficient Change Management. It is essential to know what the prior structure is in order to design changes that do not produce new incompatibilities and/or problems.
• Cost Reduction. Detailed knowledge of all the elements of the configuration allows unnecessary duplication to be avoided, for example.
• Control of licenses. It is possible to identify illegal copies of software, which could pose risks for the IT infrastructure such as viruses, etc., and non-compliance with legal requirements that may have a negative impact on the organisation.
• Greater levels of security. An up-to-date CMDB allows vulnerabilities in the infrastructure to be detected, for example.
• Faster restoration of service. If you know all the elements of the configuration and how they are interrelated, recovering the live configuration will be much easier and quicker.