Managing your technology network is serious business and preventing network downtime and performance degradations is every IT manager's dream as downtime effects your critical business services and ultimately your revenue stream. One of the major reasons for network instability is the impact of configuration change whether authorised or unauthorised. It is therefore essential that one should have a good network fault and performance management solution to ensure that downtime is limited to the absolute minimum.

Managing configuration changes also requires two key capabilities - awareness and automation. Awareness is the ability to notice and notify when changes are made to a network device whilst automation gives you the opportunity to add action and speed to awareness.

Automated, single source fault and configuration management presents huge benefits. Device configuration verification, change notification and audit capabilities avoid costly human configuration errors and better ensure business and service continuity.

Axial's Network Configuration Management Solutions provide the following capabilities:

• Real-time configuration monitoring
• Tightly integrated fault and performance management
• Automated configuration deployment
• Automated configuration comparison
• Policy-based configuration validation
• Ability to remediate configuration violations
• Detect and alert on configuration change
• Control over configuration change access
• Activity and compliance reporting