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4.2 Drift Detection
Organizations can reduce the potential for exploitation by enforcing standardized configurations and adopting
a “zero tolerance” policy for any changes. Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Console allows customer to
define their own server configuration baseline and then monitoring the drift of their production servers from
those baselines. The baseline can be built based on different criteria to fit different production enforcement,
such as security and performance.
OpenManage Enterprise can report any deviations from the baseline and optionally repair the drift with a
simple workflow to stage the changes on iDRAC9. The changes can then take place at the next maintenance
windows while servers rebooting to make the production environment compliance again. This staged process
enables customer to deploy configuration changes to production without any server downtime during non-
maintenance hours. It increases the server availability without compromising on the serviceability or security.