Announcing the itnetX PowerShell DSC Manager

Less than a year ago I worked with a couple of enterprise customers and had some interesting talks about configuration management in a modern Windows Server based datacenter where PowerShell DSC is the obvious. However the lack of graphic on premise management tools was a huge challenge for a lot of companies. While the concept of writing your configurations may not seem complicated, appropriately distributing them to machines and being able to report on the status is something that is very challenging to do on-prem. That’s where the idea was born to bring a graphical user experience for PowerShell DSC.

Within itnetX we have done a couple of projects for service providers and other customers to help them automate deployments but also do configuration management, which provides us with the technical knowledge and experience what customers truly need.

Today I am happy to announce the itnetX DSC Manager.

Our customers love DSC to manage the configuration of their servers. However, they complain that maintaining DSC and getting insights is very cumbersome due to the lack of a user interface.

With DSC Manager, we respond to our customers with an easy to use and fresh user experience for having DSC under total control.

Dieter Gasser, itnetX Head of Product Management

itnetX DSC Manager

The itnetX DSC Manager provides a single pane of glass for all your clients, configurations and modules, regardless of where they are in your datacenter. itnetX DSC Manager allows you to implement configuration management the way DSC was intended from the beginning. Allowing you to effectively mitigate configuration drift, reconfigure servers with a few clicks and report on the configuration of any one server or group of servers

Key Benefits

• Easy to read reports & dashboards
• Remote configuration of LCM
• Graphically view and build configurations
• Manage large estates of PullServers
• Build into existing automation with REST
• Audit changes for compliance

Features

• HTML reports and dashboards
• Assign Named and Partial configurations
• Configure LCM remotely to control for example reboot behavior
• Visually view and build configurations
• Manage agents from multiple PullServers
• Manage Module repository
• Automate via REST

[cta title=”Get Free Trial” button=”Request Quote and get Trial” link=”http://itnetx.ch/products/dsc-manager/”]DSC Manager is delivered as a prepackaged web application. The installation is simple and the clients can be installed and up and running within minutes. You can use DSC Manager for free to manage up to 5 clients. For managing more clients, you will require a license.[/cta]

Big thanks goes to itnetX and the team behind the DSC Manager. itnetX also has a process in place which allows employees to build and work on their own ideas and bring them to market. Together with DSC experts like Ryan Bartram itnetX started that journey and we finally have something to celebrate.

Btw: If you need some help for a faster setup, check out: the Quick itnetX DSC Manager Installer script, which removes a couple of manual tasks.