Configuration management is critical for administrators to control change within the environment and troubleshoot problems associated with changing configurations. With Grid Control's configuration management capabilities, administrators can manage change and reduce time to troubleshoot problems.
In this chapter, we discussed the challenges related to configurations in the enterprise. We discussed how to view the latest configuration for WebLogic managed server and OSB targets. Then we saved a snapshot of a known, trustworthy configuration in the Grid Control repository, so we could use that as a baseline for comparison. Then we compared the saved baseline with the latest configuration and viewed the drift. We discussed how the Grid Control configuration features could be leveraged for the WebLogic managed server and the OSB target.
Configuration management has been extended with Enterprise Manager's acquisition of two new products, namely Configuration Change Console (CCC) and Application...