CA Configuration Automation provides an application-level best practices platform for managing change, configuration, and compliance. You can discover and manage components of your enterprise at the network, server, service, and software level. You can perform the following core operations with CA Configuration Automation:
CA Configuration Automation can begin managing your enterprise applications by establishing a comprehensive, up-to-date inventory of software components across servers and networks. You can rapidly discover components for a complete, cross-platform inventory of applications at a granular level, including directories, files, registries, database tables, and configuration parameters.
Component Blueprints are the foundation for application-based discovery. They outline the basic structure of an application to enable the CA Configuration Automation Agent to find that application on a server. CA Configuration Automation includes predefined blueprints for several common applications, and you can create blueprints for any software that you want to discover.
CA Configuration Automation can detect change in a component or server by monitoring your enterprise using Snapshots. You can automatically recapture application inventories to archive configuration data in detailed snapshots. You can use the snapshots for troubleshooting, record keeping, or release management and migration planning.
You can also designate a snapshot as the "Gold Standard" to use the application states as a baseline for auditing and Change Detection.
The comprehensive Change Detection features in CA Configuration Automation let you compare the state of an application across time or to a similar application on another server. The granular knowledge about the system configuration changes has the following benefits:
The CA Configuration Automation comparison and monitoring capabilities provide an overview of your enterprise across time and let you examine what changed at any point in any network, server, or application.
You can ensure that complex applications meet internal and regulatory compliance by using the detailed information that CA Configuration Automation collects and checking Rule Compliance. CA Configuration Automation helps control applications and establishes best practices with flexible, in-depth policy definition and automated enforcement of the predefined rules, or rules you define. Auditing enterprise performance configurations, security settings, and dependent variables hardens the application infrastructure, freeing organizations from error-prone manual reviews.
CA Configuration Automation schedules formal application infrastructure reports and sends out on-demand email notifications to keep you informed of changes and policy violations. You can customize the provided report templates to select criteria to ensure that the correct people get the information necessary to make critical decisions.
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