| 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 |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Reduce maintenance costs through automation and elimination of errors
Lower service downtime costs by expediting mean time to repair |
| 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 |
Reduce maintenance costs through automation and elimination of errors
Lower service downtime costs by expediting mean to repair time |
| 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 |
Lower setup costs by automating existing manual and error-prone procedures
Reduce provisioning costs by consolidating and centralizing all activities independent of platform |
| Reporting and Analytics |
Inventory analysis
Configuration analysis
Change analysis
Compliance analysis |
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 |