In the past, fixed stars were the reliable beacons keeping ships from drifting
off course in unruly winds and currents. Today, Cfengine Nova steers mission critical
systems by promises -- the guiding stars that ensure a steady course through changing
conditions in a complex and uncertain environment. The Cfengine Nova
Knowledge Map ensures that your intentions are always clear and on target.
(See demos.)

CHARTING YOUR MISSION

Even with the best auto-pilot you will need a map.

The Nova Knowledge Map tells you not only where you are, but where you have been, and what you have learned from the journey. A Knowledge Map is a journal of experiences, charting evolving organizational maturity through all stages from

• Data (collection)
• Information (identification)
• Knowledge (assimilation)
• Wisdom (aspiration)

Cfengine Nova carries you through this progression as one aspect of protecting mission integrity. A knowledge map ties together not only the system's journey from start to finish, but the intellectual journey of your entire enterprise. Cfengine provides two overlapping knowledge maps for your journey: a library of Cfengine specific knowledge at the cfengine.com website, The end result? Fragments of information, whose destiny is to become woven into a web of knowledge.

Knowledge-based automation supports business agility, lending you the power to adapt limited resources to new challenges within a matter of minutes rather than months.

Knowledge at work

The Knowledge Map enables you to demonstrate control of your environment and prove compliance. Nova generates many interlinked reports. Many of these are generated automatically from your policies. Documentation will always be updated, and you only need to type in data once. Using Topic Maps, Cfengine Nova creates a semantic web in which different kinds of users (operators, security managers, business managers, architects, etc.) can access the kind of information that is important for them. Some highlights of what the Knowledge Map includes are:

• Overview of IT operations and system health checks
• Policy: list of all promises (browsable)
• Detailed information about the performance of each machine
• Timeseries and performance analysis
• Integrated with online support knowledge base
• Many reports, including:
  • Available patches report
  • Class report
  • Compliance report
  • Trend report
  • File change report
  • Installed software report
  • Surveillance report
  • Performance report
  • Promises not kept report
  • Promises repaired report
  • ...and more

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Knowledge Base Demo	SOX	Support Ticket Integration

Whitepaper

Knowledge management is the under-appreciated challenge of our times. This technical whitepaper describes in overview how Cfengine Enterprise editions go beyond existing industry attempts to manage information, by integrating knowledge at a fundamental level, and in a way that datacentre technicians can live with. The Cfengine Knowledge Console enables organizations to retain and build on IT management knowledge even when skilled workers leave.

Read the full whitepaper here.