Configuration management

Enterprise Manager collects configuration data of targets to provide configuration management support. For collection of configuration data, Enterprise Manager uses the same mechanism as performance metrics, that is; all the configuration to be collected and mechanisms to collect are defined in target metadata, and frequency of configuration collection is defined in target collection. Agent collects configuration data and uploads it into the repository.

Though the data collection mechanism is the same for performance and configuration data, the usage of configuration data is very different from the usage of performance data. Configuration data is used for ensuring configuration compliance and configuration change tracking.

Let us look into building blocks that provide configuration compliance and change tracking.

Policy

Enterprise Manager Grid Control provides policy subsystem for configuration and security compliance.

Policy is a construct to define configurations...