Software Compliance - HP BL685c - ProLiant - 4 GB RAM Introduction Manual

Figure 5: Performance Management Pack—Online analysis

Software compliance

Server Automation has a powerful automation engine that supports the creation of policies to define
the software installation and configuration standards for a data center, a view showing which systems
are out of compliance, and remediation to restore the correct configuration. The Compliance
Dashboard, illustrated in Figure 6, shows at a glance if the servers are in compliance with configured
policies. Icons represent the following categories of policies:
• Application configuration: These policies manage configuration files associated with applications.
• Patching: You can create policies from patch databases downloaded from an operating system
vendor such as Microsoft.
• Audit: These policies let you specify the ideal state of a server in areas such as file system
permissions or registry values. You can run audits on an ad-hoc basis if desired. If audits are
scheduled, their results are shown in the dashboard. For audit policies, while you can see the results
of hardware inventory comparisons, you can remediate only value-based results.
• Software: These policies model the desired state of an application installation, which might include
patch and application configuration policies, in addition to software package specification.
In addition to the policy compliance icons, the Compliance Dashboard also shows a change in the
icon to the right of the server name to indicate if the Server Automation core server is unable to
communicate with its agent, the managed server.
Server Automation Compliance Dashboard shows that the system is not compliant with one of its
application configuration policies. Viewing Details shows that the database configuration is out of
compliance with the policy settings. After verifying the policies are correct and discussing them with
the database administrator, the system administrator learns that, to help troubleshoot another
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