You can create a Management Profile to automate and configure how service and server discovery operations perform their search, and how they respond to the objects they locate.
To create a Management Profile
The Services or Servers tab page appears.
The existing profiles appear in the Management Profiles table.
The Profile page of the Create Management Profile wizard appears.
Specifies the name of the Management Profile.
Describes the Management Profile.
Specifies whether this Management Profile is assigned to newly discovered servers or services when they are placed in the managed mode. When the check box is empty, the profile is not designated as the default.
Specifies whether this Management Profile is available to be assigned, assigned to a Network Profile. or set as the default profile. When the check box is empty, the profile is not enabled.
Specifies whether CA Configuration Automation exports configuration items (CIs) to Catalyst and other consuming products using the CCA connector.
Specifies the Catalyst Attributes Profile to use when the Catalyst Integration is enabled. The options are Use Default, All Catalyst Attributes, and the user-defined profiles stored in the Catalyst Attributes Profiles table.
The Blueprints page appears.
Note: The top of the Blueprint page contains links to Blueprints Groups and Categories pages. You can specify any combination of Blueprints, Blueprint Groups, and Categories to use in the discovery operations managed by this profile.
As an alternative to double-clicking blueprints to move them, click a blueprint and then click the single left- or right-facing arrow button to move the blueprint to an adjacent column. Click the double left- or right-facing arrow button to move all blueprints to an adjacent column.
The selected blueprints are moved into the Discovery or Manage columns, and used by the profile for discovery and management operations.
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The selected blueprint groups are moved into the Discovery or Manage columns, and used by the profile for discovery and management operations.
The selected categories are moved into the Discovery or Manage columns, and used by the profile for discovery and management operations.
The Discovery Options page appears.
Specifies whether information about the physical host computer is discovered and managed in CA Configuration Automation.
Specifies whether information about the network is discovered and managed in CA Configuration Automation.
Specifies whether information about storage devices, storage managers, and their relationships are discovered and managed in CA Configuration Automation.
Specifies whether information about servers is discovered and managed in CA Configuration Automation. The Server Properties returned by NDG discovery operations are stored on the following pages linked from the Servers tab page:
The Server Properties component is created and updated under the following scenarios for server's with a state of Managed:
Specifies whether discovery operations associated with this profile search the Windows Registry.
Specifies whether discovery operations associated with this profile search networks and file systems connected with a symbolic link.
Specifies whether discovery operations associated with this profile search network drives on Windows computers. If you select this option, you must also complete the following steps:
#restart every # calls #restart=1000
CCagent.exe -p agent.conf
Specifies the priority given to the CA Configuration Automation Agent during discovery operations associated with this profile. As the CA Configuration Automation Agent searches the server file system for matches, it can impact the performance of other file system operations on the target server. To control the impact, you can set the priority to one of five following levels:
Specifies the amount of time before the discovery is terminated. Most discovery operations take only a few minutes, however when searching large file systems, the duration of the search can become long, particularly if the Agent Priority is set to its lowest value. If a search exceeds the limit, the discovery ends—there is no such thing as a partial discovery.
Specifies the directory to begin the search for profiles that are used on a combination of Windows and UNIX or Linux computers (or if the profile is only used on Linux and UNIX computers).
Specifies the folder to begin the search for profiles that are used only on Windows computers.
Specifies the number of directory levels below the search root that you want to search. If you leave this blank, all directories under the search root are searched.
Specifies whether the Server Software Inventory Pruning Mode is enabled. If the check box is marked, pruning is enabled, and missing software components are removed from the inventory. If you disable this feature, all discovered software remains in the inventory regardless of whether future discovery operations find it or not. Clearing the check box effectively turns the inventory into a history of software on the server.
Specifies which of the following modes is used to process missing software components:
Specifies to run a discovery operation on the servers to which the profile is assigned.
Specifies to search for service components that have been previously discovered and are already stored in CA Configuration Automation.
The Management Options page appears and displays the Change Detection and Compare management options.
Note: The top of the Management Options page also contains links to Rule Compliance, Snapshots, and Filters pages.
Specifies whether change detection or compare operations only return results for components already being managed.
Specifies whether the comparison operation is performed on the child components if the object only exists in one of the services or servers. When this option is selected, the operation ignores an object if it is not part of both services or servers.
Specifies that the change detection operation searches for changes between the current data and one or more of the following snapshots:
Specifies whether the comparison is made with another server. When checked, you must specify the server or snapshot with which to compare.
Specifies whether the comparison is made with another service. When checked, you must specify the service or snapshot with which to compare.
Specifies that when the management profile is run manually, an alert is sent over the CCA Catalyst Connector to a consuming CA product (for example, CA Spectrum Service Assurance).
This field is hidden unless the sdk.events.enabled property is set to true as described in View and Edit CA Configuration Automation Properties.
Specifies that when the management profile is run as a scheduled job, an alert is sent over the CCA Catalyst Connector to a consuming CA product (for example, CA Spectrum Service Assurance).
This field is hidden unless the sdk.events.enabled property is set to true as described in View and Edit CA Configuration Automation Properties.
The selected options are included in the profile.
The Rule Compliance page appears.
Specifies whether the rule compliance operation is performed when this profile is run.
Specifies the severity level of messages you want rule compliance to report. Rule compliance returns all messages for the level you specify and above (for example, if you want to see Error and Critical messages, select Error; if you want to see all messages, select Information).
Specifies whether violations located by the rule compliance operation are reset on the target service or server. The Remediation options are as follows:
Verifies current service or snapshot values against specified default values.
When default values are specified in a Blueprint, CA Configuration Automation automatically creates rules that check to see if the actual value deviates from the default value. Default rule deviations show as Information messages in the results.
Verifies current service or snapshot values against specified values for the corresponding data type.
Specifies that explicit rules from one or both of the following categories are used for the rule compliance operation:
Verifies current service or snapshot values against constraint rules defined in Blueprints.
Includes both user-defined rules and built-in rules, such as data type checking.
Verifies current service or snapshot values against constraint rules defined in the service and Blueprints.
Specifies the rules defined in rule groups are used for the rule compliance operation. Click the Select Rule Groups option and double click the rule group you want to use in the Available Rule Groups column to move it to the Selected Rule Groups column.
Specifies that when the management profile is run manually, an alert is sent over the CCA Catalyst Connector to a consuming CA product (for example, CA Spectrum Service Assurance).
This field is hidden unless the sdk.events.enabled property is set to true as described in View and Edit CA Configuration Automation Properties.
Specifies that when the management profile is run as a scheduled job, an alert is sent over the CCA Catalyst Connector to a consuming CA product (for example, CA Spectrum Service Assurance).
This field is hidden unless the sdk.events.enabled property is set to true as described in View and Edit CA Configuration Automation Properties.
The selected options are included in the profile.
The Snapshots page appears.
If you select this option, the following fields are activated:
Specifies a limit to the number of snapshots that are stored in CA Configuration Automation. When selected, the counter can be set to the desired number.
Specifies a limit to the age of snapshots that are stored in CA Configuration Automation. When selected, the counters can be set to the desired number of days, weeks, or months.
Note: If you select the Create Snapshot option, and do not select either the Maximum Count or Maximum Age options, an unlimited number of snapshots are stored in CA Configuration Automation until they are manually deleted.
The selected options are included in the profile.
The Filters page appears.
The selected options are included in the profile.
The Scheduling page appears and displays the Discovery tab by default.
If you select this option you do not need to define a schedule for the management operation.
Specifies that the profile does not run automatically. It can be run manually or scheduled in the future.
Specifies that the profile is run automatically one time. If you select this option, you also need to specify when it is run in the Time field.
Specifies that the profile is run on a recurring basis using at an interval defined in minutes. If you select this option, you also need to specify the following:
For example, if you want the profile to run every 10 minutes starting at 11:00 p.m., you would specify a Start Time of 11:00:00PM, and specify Recur every 10 minutes. The profile would run at 11:00 p.m., 11:10 p.m., 11:20 p.m., 11:30 p.m., and so on until the end of the hour (midnight in this example). If the current profile has not finished running by the time the next interval occurs, the next run waits until the previous one completes, and then starts.
Specifies that the profile is run on a recurring basis using at an interval defined in hours. If you select this option, you also need to specify the following:
For example, if you want the profile to run every four hours throughout the day starting at 11:00 p.m., you would specify a Start Time of 11:00:00PM, and specify Recur every 4 hours. The profile would run at 11:00 p.m., 3:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m., and 7:00 p.m.. If the current profile has not finished running by the time the next interval occurs, the next run will wait until the previous one completes, and then start. Also note that if the Start Time has already passed in the current day, the profile runs immediately, then resumes the recurring schedule you specify.
Specifies that the profile is run on a recurring basis using at an interval defined in days. If you select this option, you also need to specify the following:
Specifies that the profile is run on a recurring basis using at an interval defined in weeks. If you select this option, you also need to specify the following:
Specifies that the profile is run on a recurring basis using at an interval defined in months. If you select this option, you also need to specify the following:
Specifies the notification profile to use when discovery operations using this profile are run as scheduled. For information about creating notification profiles, see Create Notification Profiles.
Specifies the subject line of the email message that is sent by the selected notification profile.
The schedule for discovery operations associated with this profile is defined.
The Management page appears.
The management profile is created and appears in the Management Profiles table.
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