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Management Profiles

Management profiles provide the operational rules for updating services, discovering servers and software components, and for managing those components when they are located. These operation rules include:

• Which software components or categories of software components are discovered.
• Whether or not previously discovered, but no longer existing components, are removed from the component inventory.
• How frequently and when software component discovery is performed.
• What depth and level the discovery takes place and its importance relative to other operations.
• Which software components or categories of software components are managed.
• Which, when, and how frequently CA Configuration Automation management operations (Refresh, Snapshot creation and deletion, Change Detection, Compare, and Rule Compliance) are run automatically.

CA Configuration Automation includes the following predefined Management Profiles:

• Discover and Manage Application Server
• Discover and Manage CA Software
• Discover and Manage OS and Hardware (this profile is defined as the default and is assigned to a Network Profile)
• Discover and Manage Relational Databases
• Discover and Manage Server Properties
• Discover and Manage Virtualization
• Discover and Manage Web Server

The predefined profiles are created by system_user. The default profile is assigned to each newly discovered server or newly created service. You can also create your own profiles and assign them to servers and services as described later in this section.