Access Profiles

Access Profiles provide the rules for server access and CA Configuration Automation Agent installation, including:

The methodology the CA Configuration Automation Server uses to gain access to and collect information about the servers and components in your enterprise
The security and proxy information required to successfully install CA Configuration Automation Agents on selected servers, and to securely communicate with the agents

Note: Access Profiles are not required for basic Agent and agentless discovery operations. Their primary purpose is to allow you to install Agents and set up SSH and WMI access on multiple machines. Secondarily, they provide an easy way for you to make changes to or to switch between access modes.

You create new profiles or edit existing profiles using the Access Profiles link on the Servers tab of the Management page. You make the actual profile assignments on the Server tab page using the Assign Profiles option on the Select Actions drop-down list.

CA Configuration Automation includes the following predefined Access Profiles to get you started with server access operations:

Manual Agent
Port Probe
SSH
Secured Agent
Self Registered
WMI
WMI - SSH

These profiles have sensible defaults for gaining communication access to servers within your enterprise using the various modes available. However, because Access Profiles are unique to your enterprise, you can create custom access profiles, or copy and modify the predefined profiles.

The Access Profiles page displays the table of known profiles in alphabetic order by name, and also displays the description, the creator and creation timestamp, modification details, access mode (Agent, SSH, Telnet, WMI, WMI and SSH), proxy type, and whether or not the profile is assigned to a server.