Using Central Management Functions

Use Central Management functions to synchronize portal user accounts, monitor managed units, and install security policies on managed units.

Deployment health views
The deployment health views gather and display information about your entire Guardium environment in powerful, easily consumed graphical views.
Creating a cross-CM health view
The cross-central manager health view (cross-CM health view) is a Guardium unit type that provides aggregated health views for an entire Guardium deployment. These views include health information for all available central managers, aggregators, collectors, and S-TAPs in your environment.
S-TAP and GIM dashboard
This dashboard presents S-TAP and GIM health, status, version, and other information through several easy-to-use charts.
Create and manage S-TAP clusters
Learn how to define S-TAP clusters in Guardium that are useful for managing active-passive S-TAP cluster arrangements on your data servers.
Enterprise load balancing
The enterprise load balancer dynamically allocates managed units to S-TAP® agents based on system load and availability.
Deployment inventory
The inventory view provides centralized view of all database servers and any installed S-TAPs or GIM clients.
Resource deployment view
The resource deployment view shows the GIM clients and S-TAPs installed on the database servers in a Guardium environment.
Monitoring managed units
Monitor managed units from the Guardium Central Management page.
Creating managed unit groups
Organize managed units into groups and then take actions on those groups.
Installing security policies on managed units
Install a security policy on a manage unit.
Central patch management
Provide visibility and control over patch installation, status, and history.
Distributing authentication configuration
Instead of configuring authentication on each appliance separately, central management authentication (Configure Authentication) can be configured once on the central manager and then distributed to all managed units. This way, information is entered once and it applies to some or all units; some of the units may have a different type of authentication.
Distributing configurations
Configurations and their schedules, can be distributed, either all or individually, between the central manager and the managed units.
Working with configuration profiles
Configuration profiles allow you to define configuration and scheduling settings from a central manager and distribute those settings to managed unit groups without altering the configuration of the central manager itself.
Distribute custom tables
Distribute custom tables and their data from a central manager to managed units.
Central manager redundancy
Use Central Manager Redundancy or Backup Central Manager (CM) to configure a secondary or backup CM in case the Primary CM becomes unavailable.

Parent topic: Central Management