29 Overview of Change Activity Planner
Change Activity Planner (CAP) enables you to plan, manage, and monitor operations within your data center. These operations involve dependencies and coordination across teams and business owners, as well as multiple processes. Operations can include rollout of security patches every quarter, building new servers to meet a business demand, migration or consolidation of data centers, and rolling out compliance standards across an environment.
Using CAP, you can:
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Plan change activity, including setting start and end dates; and creating, assigning and tracking task status.
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Manage large numbers of tasks and targets, using automated task assignment and completion support.
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Use a dashboard where you can monitor your plans for potential delays and quickly evaluate overall plan status.
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Have task owners manage their tasks using a task-based dashboard showing task priorities and schedules.
This chapter covers the following: