Explore the SA library

The SA library provides a secure folder hierarchy for organizing and sharing all your server resources.

• The SA Library allows you to organize your server resources - packages, scripts, software policies, OS build plans, and many other server objects - in a folder hierarchy.
• Folder permissions enable you to control which user groups can view, use, and modify folder contents.
• Policies can specify various resources. Yet each resource can be located in any of various different folders. Because folder permissions determine user group access, each resource can be managed by an number of different user groups.

The ability to perform specific actions in SA is governed by your permission settings. For information about permissions, see the SA Administer section.

About server resources in the SA library

The SA Library stores server resources such as OS build plans used for OS provisioning, software packages and policies for installing software, application configurations for configuring software, patches and patch policies for installing patches, scripts for running on your servers and many other resources for managing your servers quickly and efficiently. The SA Library is organized by resource type and by folder location. You can view server resources either by their type or by their location in the folder hierarchy.

• The By type view is organized by the type of object (policy, package, OS, patch, script). This view is a popular starting point for most of the software management activities, such as creating application configurations, running scripts, attaching policies to servers.
• The By folder view allows you to manage user group access to the software resources and is organized by operating system as a default. Folders can be added, moved, etc. It is where the admin can organize and manage permissions to shared resources. When you add or import resources, you specify a folder location. The location you specify will determine which user groups can access it.

When you install SA, the SA Library contains the default folders and resource types, as described below.

• The Home folder contains a folder for every SA user. Users can only see their own user directory under the home folder.
• A folder that contains the tools required to upload ISMs to SA.
• The Package Repository folder contains software packages that are organized by operating system families.

In addition to using the default folders, you can create new folders in the library to manage your software resources. See Creating a folder for more information.

• Default Resource Types:
• Application Configurations
• Audit and Remediation
• Business Applications
• Databases*
• Extensions
• OS Build Policies
• OS Build Plans
• Packages
• Patch Policies
• Patches
• Scripts
• Software Policies
• UNIX Users and Groups
• Windows COM +
• Windows Hyper-v Manager
• Windows IIS 7 Settings
• Windows IIS Metabase
• Windows Local Security Settings
• Windows Registry
• Windows Services
• Windows Users and Groups
• Web Applications*

*Except for Web Applications and Databases, all of these resources can be added to folders.

The SA Client search tools can find managed servers, software policies, folders, application configurations, patches, and software, and let you perform actions on the results.