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CFENGINE NOVA FEATURES
Cfengine automates the operations in datacenters ensuring compliance and giving substantial cost-savings.
Cfengine Nova is a simple and versatile framework for automated system maintainance, supporting the Build, Deploy, Manage, Audit IT system lifecycle.
Nova includes native support for Linux, Unix, MacIntosh and Windows platforms. An improved semantic Knowledge Map provides a clearer, improved reporting style and new reports for everything from compliance troubleshooting to business value. It provides a single consistent cross-platform approach to Software Deployment and Management. This enables a single point of management for fully automated software upgrades.
Technical benefits from buying Cfengine Nova include:
Automation
- Simple automatic installation (one command per system)
- Auto-analysis and self-healing knowledge console
- Policy mining and semantic knowledge representation
- Auto-classification of systems
- Performance and Service Level reports
- On- and off-line syntax lookup.
- System state discovery.
Capabilities
- Native Windows support and database management
- Registry management and repair
- Filesystem ACL security management
- Service management
- Accurate Windows version handling
- Database verification and editing including SQL (Mysql,Postgres) and Windows registry
- Unix File system ACL support for extended security management
- System reporting
- Extended monitoring probes and system classification capabilities.
- HTML, XML, CSV report generation
- Service and performance level reports
- Reliability reports
- Deep history analysis and visualization, through knowledge base.
- Policy dependency and impact analysis reporting
- Access remote Cfengine variables (e.g. password hashes etc) without need for intermediate file storage or directory services.
- LDAP directory service integration
- Role based access control by class.
- Third-party software integration.
- New point-to-point communication extensions for distributed scheduling, allowing handling of a broad range of decentralized workflow management issues.
Knowledge Management
- Automated integration of policy with user defined knowledge-maps
- Auto-generated central knowlede console linking to Cfengine's company support knowledge base.
- Private knowledge extensible for tie-in with local documentation.
- Links from reports to Copernicus online support service
- Dependency mapping between promises in Cfengine, with integration into the semantic map
- Trace high level policies to low level policies
