System and method for managing configuration information for dispersed computing systems

摘要

A customer configuration server may provide access to configuration data for multiple computer systems and organize the configuration data for the computer systems within a hierarchy of logical groups. Logical groups may correspond to geographic locations, customers, and individual computer systems. For example, configuration data for several computer systems may be logically grouped by customer, and configuration data for several customers may be logically grouped by geographic location. The configuration data may be available from a variety of different data sources and accessible via a single software application. Such a software application may also provide an interface to various common functions, allowing those functions to be applied to any of the computer systems' configuration data.