Add-on product: Configuration Manager extends Itential Platform with configuration compliance and validation capabilities. It requires Itential Platform as a prerequisite. View platform overview.
A compliance plan defines the scope, schedule, and device targets for running configuration compliance checks across your infrastructure. Compliance plans use Golden Configuration trees as their source of truth and generate consolidated reports for audit and analysis.
Golden Configuration trees define what a compliant device configuration looks like. A compliance plan defines which devices to check, how often to check them, and how to report the results.
The two constructs work together:
You can run compliance checks directly from a Golden Configuration node, or you can run them through a compliance plan. The method you choose determines what reporting is available to you.
The compliance plan dashboard, trend reporting, device-level drill-down, and audit trail are available in Platform 6.4 and later. In earlier versions, compliance plans generate reports but don’t provide dashboard visibility.
Compliance plans execute checks against device configurations and generate reports based on how each plan is configured. Device selection supports individual devices, device groups, and—in Platform 6.4 and later—regex-based filtering and improved pagination for large inventories.
Your role-based access control (RBAC) permissions in Inventory Manager determine which devices you can include in a compliance plan. You can only create compliance plans against inventory you have access to.