It is important to distinguish between configuration data and descriptive data.
It significantly reduces the amount of configuration data to be distributed by the system.
This significantly reduces the volume of configuration data that needs to be distributed by the system.
However, large numbers of machines are likely to have exactly the same configuration data and thus the same fingerprint.
A small amount of configuration data is written to the Windows registry.
The configuration data can be stored and edited on one single server.
The centralized approach provides strict control of configuration data.
My basic configuration data reveals that this was a backup mission record module.
Also there needs to be configuration data, some generic information about the configuration the customer is using.
All texts, configuration data etc. will be stored in a relational database.