Software management

SA Software Management provides a powerful mechanism to model software by using software policies and to automate the process of deploying software and configuring applications on a server in a single step. In addition, SA Software Management provides a structure to organize your software resources in folders and define security permissions around them. SA Software Management allows you to verify the compliance status of a server and remediate non-compliant servers.

SA Software Management provides the following capabilities:

• Creating an organizational structure for software
• Defining security boundaries for folders
• Defining a model-based approach to manage the IT environment in your organization
• Enabling sharing of software resources among user groups
• Deploying and configuring applications simultaneously
• Deploying multiple application instances on one server
• Establishing a software deployment process
• Verifying compliance status of servers to software policies
• Generating reports
• Comprehensively searching for software resources and servers

See the SA 10.51 Use section for further information.