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CA Server Automation

CA Server Automation is a policy-based product that automatically monitors, reconfigures and provisions virtual resources to dynamically meet the load demands of complex service-oriented data centers. CA Server Automation is built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and continuously analyzes your data center to help ensure that your servers are optimally provisioned to perform required tasks.

CA Server Automation uses SystemEDGE as the basis for monitoring and managing a broad range of systems.

Specific features are only available when you use the agent with the CA Server Automation user interface. Using SystemEDGE with these products provides the following unique features:

• Visualization of the agent's state management data through Platform Management Modules. You can view the state of all monitors and find and diagnose critical monitors that are causing state propagation.
• Agent deployment to remote systems. This feature includes the ability to configure settings such as SNMP communities and any other installation settings and deploy the agent with those settings to any managed system.
• Agent configuration for remote systems. CA Server Automation features a file-based configuration solution that lets you create monitor entries, configure any aspect of the SystemEDGE agent, and deploy that configuration to any number of managed systems.
• Agent warm start. When you deploy an agent to a remote system, a full agent restart is not required in most cases. The agent performs a warm start and implements configuration changes during runtime.
• Configuration lock down options such as the ability to be notified of SNMP-based changes to any managed agent and the option to overwrite any changes not initiated through CA Server Automation.
• Deployment and configuration of the Service Response Monitor AIM.
• Virtual platform management through a wide selection of virtual environment monitoring AIM plug-ins.

CA Server Automation enhances the functionality of the SystemEDGE agent, and are the recommended products for using SystemEDGE to manage all physical and virtual systems in your environment.

For more information about CA Server Automation, see the CA Server Automation documentation.