Introducing CA Configuration Automation › CA Configuration Automation Concepts

CA Configuration Automation Concepts

This section describes CA Configuration Automation terminology and concepts that you may not be familiar with. This document also contains a glossary that briefly defines these, and other, terms.

CA Configuration Automation supports two different approaches for managing your enterprise's distributed software components:

• Server-centric management fulfills the need to manage the infrastructure of your enterprise
• Service-centric management fulfills the need to manage complex tiered or multi-component applications across your enterprise

CA Configuration Automation provides discovery, snapshot, refresh, change detection, comparison, and rule compliance operations for either approach.