Network Profiles

Network Management is used to configure Network Discovery to discover entities on your network and populate the CA Configuration Automation Database with them. Network Discovery can be configured to perform simple entity-level server discoveries that include Server Name, IP address, and operating system classification. Alternatively, Network Discovery can be used to gather more detailed information about the servers such as virtualization environment characteristics, installed applications, and server‑to‑server communication relationships.

These server details can then be used to decide whether a specific server should be managed by CA Configuration Automation.

Network Discovery uses Network Profiles to identify the following:

Which Network Discovery Gateway (NDG) server performs the discovery
Which subnets or computers to target (or exclude)
The associated Network Scan Policy, which configures the discovery methodology to be used during the discovery process
The associated Credential Vault, which defines a list of credentials to be used during the discovery process
How frequently and at what time the network discovery is performed
What kind of notifications (if any) are sent and to whom

The Network Profiles page displays a table containing all the Network Profiles that are available. Additionally, you can create and manage Network Profiles from this page.