Use Cases

The following are some examples of how Configuration Manager can be used:

• View your servers

  As a system administrator, you can view your servers and their details (attributes, CPUs, file systems, and IP addresses), as well as the high-level relationships between them.

• Investigate your hardware

  As a system administrator, you can quickly see the different types of CPUs used in your physical servers.

• Establish a configuration baseline for a lab

  As a lab administrator, you can analyze the configuration of your servers and establish a baseline that best represents the current configuration of (most of) your servers.

• Model and view an application service tree

  As an application owner, you can model and view your application service tree from the business layer through your application and software layers down to your infrastructure layers.

• Investigate and isolate configuration changes that may have caused problems in your application.

  As an application owner, you may have an application that suffers from degraded performance that started some time ago. You can isolate configuration changes that happened in your application service tree during that time period that may have caused the problem.

• Track changes that occur in your application service tree

  As an application owner, you can track and acknowledge changes that occur in your application service tree.

• Automatically acknowledge changes (reduce manual tracking)

  As an application owner, you can track and acknowledge changes that happen in your application service tree, but you want an option to manually track only interesting changes while automatically acknowledging changes that do not violate predefined conditions.

• Create a compliance stack for your application service tree

  As an application owner, you can create policies that cover your applications' configuration compliance.