CFEngine 3 Nova is a commercial subscription offering built upon the powerful and widely adopted open source CFEngine 3 project.  It is designed to help organizations overcome their biggest IT challenges by increasing agility and consistency, while reducing costs and system outages.

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CFEngine 3 Nova features:

The ‘Nova Mission Portal’ dashboard is a graphical user interface (GUI) for setting policies and monitoring system health.  The Mission Portal can also produce policy reports on the state of any IT service or machine in the enterprise, allowing executives to develop and review custom IT metrics weighted specifically to the organization’s business goals.

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Native Support for Windows – CFEngine Nova users can employ fine-grained management of Microsoft Windows servers and desktops, including native control of the Windows Registry, Windows Services and Windows Access Control Lists (ACLs). A new technical whitepaper on “Windows Management with CFEngine 3 Nova” is available here.

Ensure Faster IT Compliance -- CFEngine 3 Nova simplifies the implementation and compliance of commercial and government IT regulations, such as PCI-DSS, SOX 404, STIGs, and accepted industry best practices.  Nova provides extensive out-of-the-box and flexible customization of policies and reports, allowing organizations to complete IT audits in hours instead of weeks.

Improved Hypervisor Integration -- enhanced support for creating and managing XEN/KVM virtual machines on the fly, using the industry standard libvirt API library.

Support for Mission-Critical High Availability through a fully redundant, lightweight architecture for system information updating. Users get reliable and predictable insight, with fault recovery times of only a few minutes in case of failure -- something that cannot be easily matched by competing software.

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