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The CA Server Automation user interface provides flexible access to an extensive array of features and functions. User interface features include banner links, Search, Self-Service Portal, Dashboard, Management/Dashboard toggle; Explore tree, tab-based views, management panes, Quick Start menus, and wizards.
The Search feature provides a natural language access to CA Server Automation resources and functions. To display a list of related CA Server Automation objects and functions, enter a word or phrase and click Search.
Note: The CA Server Automation user interface only displays features for installed components and integrations.
The CA Server Automation user interface provides the following:
Provides a fully customizable portal system based on the Liferay Portal environment.
Provides a graphical view of the systems managed by CA Server Automation. The dashboard provides views that contain information including service status, utilization history, and recent events. The Dashboard Library provides a Quick Launch panel for common system functions and a Jobs pane that lets jobs run in the background so that you can continue working.
You can configure the Dashboard to display the views that are the most useful to you.
Provides three primary pages for access to systems and services, reports, and administration.
Lets you discover, view, and manage physical and virtual resources. View details about each discovered system and virtual resource, and perform management, policy, provisioning, verification, and configuration tasks for virtual and physical resources. Remote Deployment lets you deploy monitoring agents, such as SystemEDGE, to multiple systems in one operation.
Policy menus let you configure metric collection for each physical and virtual resource and create policies that automate management actions when specified rule criteria are met.
Provisioning menus let you add VMs, including Amazon EC2 Instances, IBM LPARs and Solaris Zones, using vCenter Server, Hyper-V, HMC/IVM, and Solaris Zones provisioning servers.
Verification menus let you use CA Configuration Automation to track changes in managed systems, create snapshots to compare systems and services, and create and run compliance and remediation jobs.
Lets you view utilization and inventory reports for managed platforms.
Lets you view the status of CA Server Automation components; configure settings such as SNMP communities; add important resources such as VMware vCenter servers, HMC/IVM, and Solaris Zones servers; and configure user groups and user access control.
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