Professional operation of System Center Opalis

When operating Microsoft System Center Opalis, new policies will generally be created within a development environment. If you wish to modify already existing and running policies, these have to be transferred into your development environment first - a sometimes tedious and time-consuming task. Numerous global settings and references to your target environment have to be modified with each transfer back and forth.

This is not only strenous, but also very error-prone, as with Opalis, it is not possible to view any global settings used for policies or simply execute comprehensive changes of a policy.

Our VA Opalis Staging Tool has been developed as a direct, simple and flexible approach to this problem.

VA Opalis Staging Tool Pictures:

Export – Modification– Import

One of our main goals upon developing the VA Opalis Staging Tool was to prevent direct changes in your Opalis datastore when using the tool.

Policies, which have to be transferred from one environment into another first have to be exported from the Opalis environment via policy export. All necessary changes will then be executed in this export file.

The modified export file will then be uploaded into your target environment - that's it!

During this process, the VA Opalis Staging Tool will ensure that

• all names of all global settings of the policy in your target environment are re-named;
• the policy name will be adapted;
• nothing will be forgotten;
• everything will be documented.

For further information about our VA Opalis Staging solution, please refer to our data sheet.

Attachments:

Datenblatt-VA-Staging-Tool_2010-09.pdf

Part of a holistic concept

The VA Opalis Staging Tool is part of our phase model to integrate System Center Opalis into professional environments.

Our phase model is based on long-standing experiences from different projects for the implementation and operation of System Center Opalis and enables a smooth operation by means of clearly defined, sequentially coordinated and complementary work packages.

For further information about our phase concept, please refer to our solution pages.