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CA Server Automation

CA Server Automation is a policy-based product that automatically monitors, reconfigures and provisions physical and 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 contains embedded CA Virtual Assurance functionality, including the SystemEDGE agent. Using SystemEDGE within CA Server Automation provides a system-centric management view of your data center. Information provided by SystemEDGE gives you the ability to make more informed decisions about automating the physical and virtual systems in your data center. Combining the agent with CA Virtual Assurance functionality provides management for virtual and physical systems through the CA Virtual Assurance AIMs.

Platform Management Modules collect information from the SystemEDGE agent for display on the CA Server Automation user interface. The CA Server Automation user interface provides a topology view of all physical and virtual systems in several different contexts. Selecting a system managed by SystemEDGE in this view displays a monitored object state summary, defined monitors, and various system metrics. The user interface also provides options for performing system actions enabled by the virtual monitoring AIMs. You have access to the full suite of CA Virtual Assurance functionality within CA Server Automation, and you can view SystemEDGE traps in the CA Server Automation event view.