About configuration management

IBM® Sterling Control Center can manage many types of IBM Sterling Connect:Direct server configuration objects.

• Functional authorities (UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and z/OS)
• Initialization parameters (UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and z/OS)
• Netmap nodes (UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and z/OS)
• Netmap modes (Microsoft Windows)
• Netmap communication paths (Microsoft Windows)
• Secure Plus nodes (UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and z/OS)
• Secure Plus key certificates (UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and z/OS)
• Secure Plus trusted certificates (UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and z/OS)
• Secure Plus cipher suites (UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and z/OS)
• User proxies (UNIX and Microsoft Windows)

You can also use the IBM Sterling Control Center API (CCAPI) to programmatically create and maintain objects.

When you are performing configuration management on a Connect:Direct server, that server must be up and contacted. When you are using the object from another node as a starting place for configuration, the object comes from the IBM Sterling Control Center database. As a result, IBM Sterling Control Center does not contact that node; therefore, the status of that Connect:Direct server is not relevant.