Understanding Automated Configuration Using PIA

The automated configuration management framework allows you to automate product configurations using your browser (PIA) or from the command line.

This section describes the use of the Automated Configuration Manager interface in PIA. Automated Configuration Manager allows you to configure an environment with the required product settings without navigating manually to the product’s actual configuration pages.

Automated Configuration Manager uses a template to store settings and run a configuration program. In a template, you can include all the product configurations called plug-ins that you require for an environment, and you can group the plug-ins based on the product. For example, plug-ins required for an Integration Broker configuration can belong to one group, whereas the plug-ins required for a Search Framework configuration can be another group in the same template. This enables you to configure more than one product in a single configuration program run, and you can also control the sequence in which products are configured. For example, you can set Integration Broker to be setup and configured first and the Search Framework second to account for the dependencies the Search Framework has upon Integration Broker.

Your configuration templates can be exported from one environment and imported by others so you can reuse templates in different environments by editing the configuration plug-in properties and values as required for an environment.

Automated Configuration Manager allows you to:

• Create, edit, manage, import, and export templates.

• Define template variables.

• Register configuration plug-ins.

• Specify template processing modes.

• Monitor a configuration run.