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Automating Processes with CA Process Automation

CA Process Automation automates routine administration tasks, improves operations efficiency and incident response handling, and ensures best practice and regulatory controls compliance. CA Process Automation can automate and manage many processes, including the following:

• Applications monitoring and restart
• Disaster recovery
• Virtual Infrastructure Management
• IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) compliance
• Security
• Discovery
• Change detection
• Provisioning
• Performance monitoring
• Storage provisioning

The CA Process Automation integration with CA Server Automation enhances rules and actions handling by providing a graphical user interface that lets systems administrators configure and manage processes that CA Server Automation activates. CA Process Automation uses these processes to run operational processes automatically. CA Process Automation also supports client applications that let operators and other users schedule, start, and monitor automated processes.

A typical usage scenario follows:

• The administrator configures a rule that requires provisioning a single or multiple virtual machines on a specific date or when a particular metric is reached on a server.
• This rule activates the CA Server Automation interface to CA Process Automation and that triggers a process that has already been configured on that server.
• When the process terminates, an event is sent to CA Server Automation and a Service Desk ticket is created, if available.