| Discovery Manager |
- Discover, record, and access server configuration data
- Real-time and historical visibility into configuration and change attributes
- Identify dependencies between servers and applications
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- Lower costs associated with identifying and capturing rich inventory information
- Reduce maintenance costs associated with updating inventory
- Minimize problem resolution costs by identifying dependencies among elements
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| Compliance Manager |
- Define security & configuration policies for servers and applications based on best practices (CIS, NSA, NIST, COBIT, ITIL etc.)
- Rules-based auditing that allows sophisticated audit scenarios to be modeled with flexibility for compliance measurement
- Schedule and trigger automatic audits to identify non-compliant instances and trends
- Support remediation through repair, rollbacks, or configuration updates
- Rich analytics to identify drifts from compliance and configuration change perspectives
- Access Controls based on roles, privileges and target configuration items
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- Minimize service downtime costs by expediting rollback, or updating or reverting to the last consistent state
- Improve audits beyond a mere "exists or not" approach
- Lower costs associated with enforcing policies from multiple drivers - regulatory, operations, standards, best practices, and security
- Generate metrics to document compliance and identify process improvements required to lower costs over time
- Granular configuration item level access control to audit and track change activities
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| Configuration Manager |
- Policy definitions to automate updates for patches, packages, and configurations based on service and vendor standards
- Support pre-screening for any potential errors prior to committing changes
- Support rollback to the last known consistent state
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- Reduce maintenance costs through automation and elimination of errors
- Lower service downtime costs by expediting mean time to repair
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| Configuration Manager Network Shell™ |
- Provides centralized, secure console for ad hoc querying and actions using standard scripting (Perl, Python) and Network Shell™, a network aware shell for UNIX (Zsh)
- Supports Single Sign On (SSO) capabilities to facilitate easy cross platform, cross-server administration
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- Reduce maintenance costs through automation and elimination of errors
- Lower service downtime costs by expediting mean time to repair
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| Provisioning Manager |
- Automate provisioning across platforms from bare metal level to full stack for servers
- Establish and implement policies at multiple levels – bare OS, full stack, and applications
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- Lower setup costs by automating existing manual and error-prone procedures
- Reduce provisioning costs by consolidating and centralizing all activities independent of platform
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| Reporting and Analytics |
- Inventory analysis
- Configuration analysis
- Change analysis
- Compliance analysis
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- Improve compliance over time by correlating changes to policies
- Identify labor costs by function
- Generate reports based on best practices and accepted governance frameworks like COBIT and ITIL
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