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.

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.

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

Services integration support