Best Configuration Management Software with a Free Trial
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What is Configuration Management Software with a Free Trial?
Configuration management software is used to track and manage the configuration of systems, networks, and software throughout their lifecycle. It allows teams to automate the process of setting up and maintaining consistent configurations across multiple environments, reducing human error and ensuring standardization. This software helps monitor changes, providing version control and audit trails to maintain system integrity and compliance. It is especially useful in complex IT infrastructures, enabling teams to deploy, update, and scale systems efficiently. Configuration management software ultimately improves system reliability, reduces downtime, and facilitates collaboration among development and operations teams. Compare and read user reviews of the best Configuration Management software with a Free Trial currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Unimus
NetCore j.s.a. (Unimus)
Taking control of the configuration of your network equipment is what Unimus offers. Supporting over 400 devices from 150 vendors, Unimus has an expanding suite of tools for Network Administrators working with networks of a dozen to thousands of devices. Unimus allows you to quickly search your network's configuration, both history and the active configuration. So you can audit how your network is configured, when it was changed, and even comment those changes for tracking and collaboration. From there, you can stay on top of your network's configuration with notifications through Email, Pushover, and Slack. You can also easily integrate Unimus into your workflow with its powerful API and NMS connectors. Take the helm of your network through Unimus with Mass Configuration Pushes or the integrated Device CLI — allowing you to make changes to a single device or thousands in seconds or on your schedule. Gain confidence, clarity, and control over your infrastructure with Unimus.Starting Price: $5.90 per device per year -
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JDisc Discovery
JDisc
JDisc Discovery is a comprehensive network inventory and IT asset management solution designed to help organizations gain clear, up-to-date visibility into their IT environment. It automatically scans and maps devices across the network, including servers, workstations, virtual machines, and network hardware, to create a detailed inventory of all connected assets. This includes critical information such as hardware configurations, software installations, patch levels, and relationshipots between devices. One of the standout features of JDisc Discovery is its agentless discovery process, meaning it does not require the installation of any software on individual devices, reducing deployment time and minimizing network impact. It supports a wide range of protocols (e.g., SNMP, SSH, WMI) to gather data, making it compatible with diverse IT environments, whether they are Windows, Linux, or Unix-based.Starting Price: $100.00/one-time -
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AdRem NetCrunch
AdRem Software
NetCrunch is a powerful, scalable, all-in-one network monitoring system built for modern IT environments. It supports agentless monitoring of thousands of devices, covering SNMP, servers, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), traffic flows (NetFlow, sFlow), logs, and custom data via REST or scripts. With 670+ monitoring packs and dynamic views, it automates discovery, configuration, alerting, and automates self-healing actions for efficient remote remediation in response to alerts. Its node-based licensing eliminates sensor sprawl and complexity, providing a clear, cost-effective path to scale. Real-time dashboards, policy-driven setup, advanced alert tuning and 40+ alert actions including remote script execution, service restart, process kill or device reboot-make NetCrunch ideal for organizations replacing legacy tools like PRTG, SolarWinds, or WhatsUp Gold. Fast to deploy and future-proof. Can be installed on prem, self hosted in the cloud, or mixed.Starting Price: $1600 for NetCrunch 50 nodes -
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DriveLock
DriveLock
Cyber threats are everywhere, but protecting your IT systems should be as natural as locking your front door. With DriveLock’s HYPERSECURE Platform, safeguarding your endpoints and business data is easier than ever. We integrate the latest security technologies and share our expertise, so you can focus on what matters—without worrying about data protection. Zero Trust Platform takes a proactive approach, eliminating security gaps before they become a risk. By enforcing centralized policies, DriveLock ensures employees and endpoints access only what they need—following the golden rule of cybersecurity: ''never trust, always verify''. -
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GLPI
TECLIB
GLPI is an incredible Service Management software based on open source technologies. It helps you plan and manage IT changes in an easy way, solve problems efficiently, automate your business processes and gain control over your IT infrastructure. Key features of GLPI: 1. Service Desk 2. Asset management and automatic inventory 3. Rationality for data quality control 4. Administrative and financial management of assets 5. Software inventory and licences management 6. Knowledge and frequently asked questions 7. Statistics and reports 8. Profound integration 9. Android-based devices inventoryStarting Price: €19/month/user -
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Scalr
Scalr
Scalr's Terraform Automation & Collaboration Software (TACOS) is a remote state & operations backend for Terraform with full CLI support, integration with OPA, a hierarchical configuration model, and quality of life features.Starting Price: $20/user/month -
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Unleash
Bricks Software AS
Unleash is an open-source feature management software, built with large enterprises in mind. It's private, secure, scalable, and ready for the most complex setups out-of-the-box. Move from all-or-nothing releases to safe and frequent deployments Instead of perfecting a merge and fixing bugs when a set of features go live, you can release individual changes to your users, then immediately roll them back if something goes wrong. Scale your software and infrastructure at your own pace Reduce the complexity of feature flag management and tracking through a simple, user-friendly dashboard. Keep your user data to yourself. Full stop. Unleash offers private instances as part of its SaaS package. With assets like its proxy and Edge offerings, SaaS Unleash user data remains entirely with the customer. Significantly cut costs and reduce the drain on resources Reduce a significant amount of administrative costs, technical debt and helps you focus on the feature flags' benefits.Starting Price: $0 -
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SaltStack
SaltStack
SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. With the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured systems. As soon as an issue is detected, this powerful automation helps you and your team remediate it, keeping your infrastructure securely configured, compliant, and up-to-date. The SecOps suite includes both Comply and Protect. Comply scans and remediates against CIS, DISA-STIG, NIST, PCI, HIPAA compliance standards. And Protect scans for vulnerabilities and patches and updates your operating systems. -
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Ansible
Red Hat
Ansible is a radically simple automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Ansible Automation Platform has grown over the past years to provide powerful automation solutions that work for operators, administrators and IT decision makers across a variety of technology domains. It’s a leading enterprise automation solution from Red Hat®, a thriving open source community, and the de facto standard technology of IT automation. Scale automation, manage complex deployments, and speed productivity with an enterprise automation platform that can be used across entire IT teams. Red Hat or partner consulting services help you advance your end-to-end automation journey for faster time to value.Starting Price: Free -
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Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
Red Hat
Built on the open Eclipse Che project, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces uses Kubernetes and containers to provide any member of the development or IT team with a consistent, secure, and zero-configuration development environment. The experience is as fast and familiar as an integrated development environment on your laptop. OpenShift Dev Spaces is included with your OpenShift subscription and is available in the Operator Hub. It provides development teams a faster and more reliable foundation on which to work, and it gives operations centralized control and peace of mind. Get coding today with our free Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift, which includes OpenShift Dev Spaces to try out at no cost. Developers can focus more on coding, with their application and development environment containerized and running on OpenShift - all without needing to understand the details of Kubernetes. Administrators can easily manage and monitor workspaces as any other Kubernetes resource.Starting Price: $30 per month -
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Netreo
Netreo
Netreo is the most comprehensive full stack IT infrastructure management and observability platform. We provide a single source of truth for proactive performance and availability monitoring for large enterprise networks, infrastructure, applications and business services. Our solution is used by: - IT Executives to have full visibility from the business service right down into the infrastructure and network that supports it. - IT Engineering departments as a decision support system for capacity planning, and architecting modern solutions. - IT Operations teams for real time visibility into what is failing in their environment, what bottlenecks exist and who it is affecting. We provide all of these insights for systems and vendor mixes in large heterogeneous and constantly evolving environments. We have an extensive and growing list of supported vendors (over 350 integrations) including network vendors, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud platforms and others.Starting Price: $5/resource/mo -
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SUSE Manager
SUSE
SUSE Manager was designed to help your enterprise DevOps and IT Operations teams reduce complexity and regain control of your IT assets with a single tool to manage Linux systems across a variety of hardware architectures, hypervisors as well as container, IoT and cloud platforms. It automates Linux server and IoT device provisioning, patching and configuration for faster, consistent and repeatable server deployment helping to optimize operations and reduce costs. And with automated monitoring, tracking, auditing and reporting of your systems, VMs, and containers across your development, test and production environments, you can ensure compliance with internal security policies and external regulations. -
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Bamboo
Atlassian
Bamboo offers first-class support for the "delivery" aspect of continuous delivery. Deployment projects automate the tedium right out of releasing into each environment, while letting you control the flow with per-environment permissions.Starting Price: $10 for up to 10 jobs -
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BelManage
Belarc
BelManage allows users to reduce their software license and maintenance costs, monitor their cybersecurity status and configuration details. BelManage is based on Belarc’s Cloud architecture, uses a single Intranet server and database, and automatically creates an accurate and up-to-date central repository (CMDB) of software, hardware and security configuration details. Belarc’s cloud architecture allows users to simplify and automate the monitoring of all of their desktops, laptops, servers and virtual machines throughout the world, using a single server and database. The BelManage server can be located on premises, on our customer's cloud or hosted by Belarc via SaaS.Starting Price: $10 per computer -
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UVexplorer
UV Networks
UVexplorer PRO automatically and quickly discovers all of the information about the devices on your network and the connections between them. UVexplorer creates network maps for documentation, meetings, presentations, sharing with your boss, or hanging on the wall. Export UVexplorer's automated network maps to PRTG, LucidChart, Microsoft Visio™, PDF, and SVG file types. UVexplorer also backups and provides change notifications for configurations of your network devices, such as routers, switches, and firewalls. Track how device configurations change over time. With UVexplorer's PRTG Connector, add powerful network discovery, detailed device inventory, and automatic network maps to PRTG Network Monitor. Capture detailed device and network inventory information to help meet documentation requirements of governmental regulations like PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, SOX, etc. Analyze and solve network and device problems with UVexplorer's suite of diagnostic tools.Starting Price: $1,795 per year -
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RemoteExec
IS Decisions
RemoteExec remotely installs applications, executes programs/scripts and updates files and folders on Windows systems throughout the network. RemoteExec quickly and easily deploys applications packaged in .msi format to hundreds or (tens of) thousands of Windows systems. You simply need to specify the .msi path and the action to take (install/uninstall/repair/update), select the target computers, and launch the deployment in a click. RemoteExec allows remote execution of programs (.exe, .bat, .cmd), scripts (.vbs, .js) and files associated to executables (.txt, .doc, .wav, .reg, .inf, .msi, …). With RemoteExec, you can deploy Service Packs, updates, patches and hotfixes to all required Windows systems in minutes. RemoteExec allows remote modification of the registry on all Windows systems throughout the network, or of a specific subset of computers.Starting Price: $437.80 for 20 systems -
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Change Manager for Group Policy/Intune
SDM Software, Inc.
Change Manager for Group Policy/Intune brings modern change control and governance to customers that rely on Windows Group Policy and Intune day in and day out. Securely delegate access to GPO editing, container linking and Intune profiles and their assignments, with approval-based workflows. View differences and search for settings between versions of GPOs, containers and Intune profiles and rollback, undelete or schedule deployment of changes–all from a modern web interface. Whether you are new to GPO (and Intune) Change Control or looking for an alternative to Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM), CMGPI can meet your needs. Bring Security and Governance to your Windows configuration environments.Starting Price: based on active computers -
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PowerPlug Pro
PowerPlug Ltd
PowerPlug Pro is a PC Power Management system and a (patented) PC Wake Up solution for medium to large organization. The product allows IT department to define multiple power policies for different group of PCs that specify the exact conditions in which PCs will enter power saving mode - without interrupting End-Users work. Our patented Wake Up solution allows IT technician to perform all PC maintenance jobs outside of normal business hours and increase the success rate of software distributions and patch distributions. A special Wake Up Portal also allows End Users to securely wake up and connect to their work PC remotely, helping organizations that allow employees working from home to continue their work un-interrupted and still save energy and money when PCs are not in use.Starting Price: $1/month/PC -
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Saint Security Suite
Carson & SAINT
This single, fully integrated solution conducts active, passive and agent-based assessments while its extensive flexibility evaluates risk according to each business. SAINT’s impressive, flexible and scalable scanning capabilities set it apart from many others in this space. SAINT has partnered with AWS, allowing its customers to take advantage of AWS’s efficient scanning. Should subscribers prefer, SAINT also offers a Windows scanning agent. Security teams can schedule scans easily, configure them with considerable occurrence flexibility and fine-tune them with advanced options. As a vulnerability management solution, SAINT Security Suite’s security research and development efforts focus on investigation, triage, prioritization, and coverage of vulnerabilities of the highest levels of severity and importance. Not willing to settle for just blanket coverage and raw data, our analysts focus on developing tools for what matters to our customers.Starting Price: $1500.00/year/user -
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Xurrent
Xurrent
Xurrent is an enterprise service management (ESM) solution for seamless collaboration between internal and external service providers. Xurrent is the only ESM solution that makes it possible for all internal departments, like IT, HR and Facilities, to work together seamlessly with each other, as well as with the managed service providers to which some services have been outsourced. In addition to supporting the ITIL processes, Xurrent also provides fully integrated knowledge management, time tracking and project management capabilities. For enterprise employees, Xurrent is the Self Service app that is always there for them whenever they need some help. Apart from Xurrent's ITSM and ESM capabilities that support the ITIL and KCS practices, Xurrent uniquely supports the SIAM approach. This management approach is becoming increasingly important as enterprises rely on ever-more external providers.Starting Price: $0 per month Freemium -
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Rudder
Normation
Manually managing your IT infrastructure, especially if it’s critical or hybrid, is not really efficient. The best approach is to use automation combined with configuration compliance to have full and continuous control of your systems. Rudder is built on a powerful compliance-driven automation engine, providing a simple, declarative management framework for your system configurations. No more loss of service, Rudder keeps your systems correctly configured by controlling the drift in a centralized platform. Define global parameters across your infrastructure while managing exceptions with hierarchical variables. In the same way, configure using infrastructure-as-code with the Rudder language, synchronized with the web interface allowing all teams to collaborate.Starting Price: €50 per node per year -
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Split
Harness
In a world where product development teams are pressured to do more with less, Split’s Feature Data Platform™ gives you the confidence to move fast without breaking things. Set up feature flags and safely deploy to production, controlling who sees which features and when. Connect every flag to contextual data, so you know if your features are making things better or worse, and act without hesitation. Effortlessly conduct feature experiments like A/B tests without slowing down. Split is a feature management platform that takes the extra step with experts to support you, online courses to help you learn as you go, and a developer-oriented culture that puts our customers at the center. Whether you’re looking to increase your releases, to decrease your MTTR, or to ignite your dev team without burning them out–Change the way the work gets done with Split. Switch on a free account today, schedule a demo to learn more, or contact us for further questions. -
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LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly feature management platform. Dynamically control the availability of application features to your users. Modern development and operations teams are using feature management to deliver faster and take on more development cycles. This best practice enables engineering teams of any size to continuously deploy code, and empowers business teams with control over features so they can manage their customers' experience. With the LaunchDarkly Feature Management Platform, leading teams are able to reduce risk and launch their ideas at inception. Speed up the pace of software delivery by separating code deployments from feature releases. Deploy when you want, release when you’re ready. Lower the cost of being wrong by using feature flags to rollout new features and services or when migrating systems. Monitor and manage your features in real-time. Test robust functionality instead of just cosmetic changes.Starting Price: $12 per month -
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SolarWinds Kiwi CatTools
SolarWinds
Powerful network automation and configuration management software. Affordable network configuration management for small business networks. Schedule automatic backup activities and roll out configuration changes to multiple devices at the same time. Pre-schedule changes to your network device configurations to occur only on the devices you choose, and only when you want them to. Get alerted on changes to your network equipment so you can head off any malicious activities. Quickly rollback configuration changes when needed to avoid issues before their impact is felt. Schedule automated backups of network device configuration from routers, switches, firewalls, etc. Managing one-off config changes isn’t easy, not to mention the impact a minor issue can have on your entire network. Simultaneously perform or schedule configuration changes across multiple network devices with great ease. Changes to config files, outside of your knowledge, could be a sign of something insidious.Starting Price: $811 -
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WinReporter
IS Decisions
WinReporter retrieves detailed information about hardware, software and security settings from Windows systems and automatically generates reports. -
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SystemLink
NI
SystemLink eliminates the manual tasks when keeping test systems current and healthy. From automating updates to monitoring system health, SystemLink delivers key information that improves situational awareness and test readiness to help you deliver quality across the product lifecycle. With SystemLink, you ensure that software configurations are accurate, and that test equipment complies with calibration and quality standards. Leveraging an automation and connectivity platform, SystemLink aggregates test and measurement data from all test systems into a centralized data repository. Users have ready access to asset utilization, calibration forecasts as well as test result history, trends, and production metrics data to make proactive decisions on the capital expense, maintenance events, and test or product modifications. -
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Cruz Operations Center (CruzOC)
Dorado Software
CruzOC is a scalable multi-vendor network management and IT operations tool for robust yet easy-to-use netops. Key features of CruzOC’s integrated and automated management include performance monitoring, configuration management, and lifecycle management for 1000s of vendors and converging technologies. With CruzOC, administrators have implicit automation to control their data center operations and critical resources, improve network and service quality, accelerate network and service deployments, and lower operating costs. The result is comprehensive and automated problem resolution from a single-pane-of-glass. Cruz Monitoring & Management. NMS, monitoring & analytics -- health, NPM, traffic, log, change. Automation & configuration management -- compliance, security, orchestration, provisioning, patch, update, configuration, access control. Automated deployment -- auto-deploy, ZTP, remote deploy. Deployments available on-premise and from the cloud.Starting Price: $1350 -
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Netwrix Strongpoint
Netwrix
Netwrix Strongpoint helps organizations build smart controls that automate the hardest parts of SOX compliance management and audit reporting, access reviews and segregation of duties, data security, and change management. Netwrix Strongpoint works with NetSuite and Salesforce. With tight controls to track and protect what’s in scope, Strongpoint customers are able to produce airtight audit reporting on demand, greatly reducing the cost and time of SOX compliance prep. See what’s safe to change and what requires additional review. Then, use highly sophisticated impact analysis tools to streamline the discovery process. Not subject to SOX? Netwrix Strongpoint’s award-winning data security, configuration management, and change management tools help businesses running complex business systems maintain transparency and harden their business-critical applications against security risks.Starting Price: $1000/month -
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Cruz RMM
Dorado Software
Single Pane-of-glass to automate your customers' IT operations. Cruz Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) is designed for Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs) to proactively and remotely monitor and manage the IT infrastructure, networks, client endpoints, and computers, from anywhere! Whether you are an MSP looking for ways to enhance your business, or a reseller/VAR breaking into the MSP business, Dorado can help you monitor and manage your environment securely and remotely from a single console. All of this is included in an affordable, easy-to-use, and scalable solution. Dorado Software is a leading provider of resource management, performance monitoring, and service orchestration software to automate cloud operations across converged infrastructure fabrics. Dorado helps operators and IT professionals monitor, configure, and manage converged infrastructures (physical and virtual storage, servers, networking devices), virtualized network functions, and cloud services.Starting Price: $1350 -
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CruzNow
Dorado Software
CruzNow is a SaaS-based, single-pane-of-glass infrastructure management solution for IT teams to configure, monitor, troubleshoot, and manage your multi-vendor/technology infrastructure including routers, switches, servers, operating systems, software stacks, any physical or virtual device! By moving your infrastructure management to a SaaS solution, you can reduce overhead, save time and money, and free IT staff to focus on more strategic initiatives.Starting Price: Contact Dorado for pricing.