System and application configurations are changing constantly. Some changes are necessary and authorized, while others may be malicious or done outside normal processes. One thing they all have in common is they’re often the cause of outages, performance issues, or vulnerabilities. However, knowing when these changes took place and who made the change without a configuration change monitoring tool is nearly impossible.

SolarWinds® Server Configuration Monitor (SCM) is designed to track and alert you when system and application configs change from a user-defined baseline or their last configuration. With agent-based monitoring on Windows and Linux devices and applications, you’ll see changes in near real time and who made changes to files and the registry.

Monitor databases for unauthorized changes

Know quickly when your database configuration changes

Your databases are mostly behind the scenes, but they’re critical to keeping your business running. SCM monitors for configuration changes to this infrastructure, and changes to user permissions and schemas.

Correlate configuration changes to performance

Know if config changes are helping or hurting performance.

When a server is down or performing poorly, the change data collected by Server Configuration Monitor can be combined with the performance, health, and availability metrics collected by other Orion® Platform-based modules in a single visual timeline via PerfStack™. The combination of these two sets of data allows you to easily see if an application or server configuration change was the source of a performance issue or outage.

Manage scripts and monitor output changes

Enhance change auditing capabilities by monitoring script outputs.

Homegrown scripts provide valuable insight into your organizations systems and applications. With SCM, you can centrally manage scripts, distribute those scripts to servers in your environment, and then track and alert on changes to the entire output of those scripts. Essentially expanding your change monitoring capacity to the level of your scripting prowess.

Hardware and software inventory tracking

View and report on hardware and software inventories.

Gain better control of your hardware and software inventory with Server Configuration Monitor’s asset inventory tool. It’s designed to provide you with an up-to-date list of your hardware and software assets.

Orion Platform Integration

Unified infrastructure and change auditing.

Built on the Orion Platform, Server Configuration Monitor has direct access and integration with other enterprise level features and datasets.

Server Compliance Monitoring

Automation of compliance policy monitoring for device, server, and application configuration against a benchmark

Each rule reads a configuration from a file, device, command, registry setting, etc.; pulls the needed information; evaluates it against the benchmark; and returns pass, fail, or unknown.

Server Configuration Monitor is a part of the SolarWinds Orion® Platform.

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Get notified if configuration changes impact system and application availability or performance by pairing SolarWinds® Server Configuration Monitor (SCM) with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM).
Use PerfStack™ to correlate database changes in SCM with the response time measured by SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) to help identify whether performance issues were caused by configuration changes.
Gain visibility into configuration changes and policy compliance across your infrastructure by combining SCM and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM).

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