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Feature Selection

The Select Features screen of the installation program lets you define the location where you want CA ControlMinder installed, and the features you want to install on this computer. The following features are available:

Feature

Description

Recommendation

Task Delegation

Lets you grant ordinary users the necessary privileges to perform administrative tasks.

Note: Selected by default.

Select this feature if you want to provide users with sub-administration rights. You can also configure this post installation.

SDK

Creates a subdirectory called SDK. It contains the libraries and files required for using the CA ControlMinder SDK, and API samples.

Select this feature if you want to develop in-house CA ControlMinder-secured applications.

Stack Overflow Protection (STOP)

Enables the CA ControlMinder stack overflow protection feature.

Select this feature to protect your program from being exploited.

Mainframe Password Synchronization

Lets you synchronize user passwords with your mainframe computers.

Select this feature if you have mainframe computers you want to keep synchronized.

Unicenter Integration

Lets you integrate Unicenter NSM with CA ControlMinder and migrate Unicenter NSM data. CA ControlMinder sends audit data to the host specified by the configuration parameters of Unicenter NSM or a host you select.

Note: This feature is only available if you have Unicenter NSM installed on this computer.

 

Advanced Policy Management Client

Configures the local computer for advanced policy management.

Select this feature for every endpoint you want to be able to deploy policies to (using advanced policy management).

Note: For more information about advanced policy management, see the Enterprise Administration Guide.

Policy Model Subscriber

Configures the local computer to receive updates from a PMDB parent.

Select this feature for every endpoint you want to be able to update from a PMDB parent.

Note: For more information on the Policy Model service, see the Endpoint Administration Guide for Windows.

SAM Integration

The SAM integration configures the local computer for Shared Accounts Management (SAM), so that you can discover and manage privileged accounts and applications on the computer.

Select this feature for every endpoint that has shared accounts that you want to use SAM to manage.

Note: For more information about SAM, see the Enterprise Administration Guide.

Report Agent

Lets you configure the computer to send scheduled snapshots of the database to the Distribution Server.

You can then select to also send audit records to the Distribution Server.

Select the Report Agent feature if you want to include this endpoint in your enterprise reports. Select the Audit Routing sub-feature if you want to use CA User Activity Reporting to manage your enterprise audit logs.