About configuration management

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

These objects include:

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

IBM Control Center stores versions of managed server objects locally. The number and age of versions kept by IBM Control Center is controlled through the Services tab in System Settings. You can set up IBM Control Center, through the Services system settings, to know whether and when to look for local updates to managed objects, and, if a change to those objects is detected, how to create a new, local version of them.
Note: When you are performing configuration management on a node, that node 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 Control Center database. As a result, IBM Control Center does not contact that node; therefore, the status of that node is not relevant.