McAfee Change Reconciliation

McAfee Change Reconciliation Overview:

McAfee Change Reconciliation creates a comprehensive inventory of the changes carried out on all systems, grouping and matching them with change tickets and approvals. It flags ad-hoc changes made without approvals, and documents emergency changes that were made with improper documentation.

Description:

McAfee Change Reconciliation can be used to provide closed-loop change management. This solution eliminates ad-hoc changes automatically documents authorized changes, and creates incident tickets for emergency changes. It integrates with all popular change management systems, configuration management databases, and custom ticketing systems.

Benefits and Features:

Benefits:

Close the loop between change approvals and implementation
McAfee Change Reconciliation ties change approvals with change actions, which is critical to strong IT service management (ITSM). This is commonly a mandatory control for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance under the Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) framework, and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best-practices.
Ensure that only approved changes are made
By providing a work log of all changes made, McAfee Change Reconciliation helps you be certain that no potentially risky “piggyback” changes are made on top of approved changes
Automatically validate changes
McAfee Change Reconciliation allows you to automatically validate changes corresponding to an approved and implemented request for change (RFC) based on hostname or configuration item (CI), actual start time, actual end time, and user name
Streamline change management operations with automatic RFC updates
Once a change is made, detailed information about the change including the user who made the change, and the configuration item/hostname that changed, is accessible through the change ticket or change management system. You can also view and create a ticket for un-reconciled changes. This takes any manual—and potentially error-prone—activity out of the equation.

Features:

Configurable for further control and integration
McAfee Change Reconciliation can be configured such that changes will only be permitted in the presence of approved change tickets. McAfee Change Reconciliation offers integration with popular change management systems, including BMC Remedy, HP ServiceManager, and other change management systems and solutions.
Integrates with configuration management databases (CMDBs)
Apart from change ticketing systems, McAfee Change Reconciliation can integrate with CMDBs to provide real-time detailed change information to other applications such as, HP Universal CMDB, and BMC Atrium CMDB
Web-based GUI
McAfee Change Reconciliation is easily implemented through a web-based GUI that also displays the results of the reconciliation

System Requirements:

Supported Operating Systems (OS)

Windows NT
Windows 2000/2003/2008
Windows XP/Vista
Windows XPE
Windows XP/Vista (64-bit)
Windows 2003/2008 (64-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3/4/5
CentOS 4/5
SUSE Enterprise Linux 9/10
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5
Solaris 8/9/10
HP-UX 11.00/11.11/11.23
AIX 5.2/5.3
IBM i5/OS (AS400) V5R3/V5R4/V6R1
IBM 4690 OS V5

Supported Databases

Oracle 8i/9i/10g
SQL Server 7/2000/2005
DB2 8.x/9.x
DB2 for iSeries V5R4