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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 Use section for further information.