Lifecycle and Policy Management

Commander's robust policy engine automates service lifecycle management, ensuring that the resources deployed by services, such as VMs and instances, are decommissioned within set time limits. Flexible notification and expiry extension options ensure that users are well informed and able to keep services active for as long as they are needed, without introducing sprawl.

Multiple enforcement options allow multi-stage decommissioning using any combination of quarantine, power state management, and the ability to remove services from inventory before finally deleting them after a cooling off period you define.

Expiry and decommissioning

• Manage Service Expirations
• Manage Expired Services Through Policies
• Delete Deployed Services

Ownership

• Resource and Service Ownership

Policy management

• Automatically Assign Attributes to New Services
• Manage Policies
• Subscribe to Policy Alerts

General lifecycle management

• Configure VM Power Schedules
• Power Schedule Recommendations
• Compare VMs
• Rename Infrastructure Elements
• Manage End-of-Life VMs
• Manage Unapproved VMs
• Manage Suspect VMs
• Manage VM Snapshots
• Quarantine VMs

Reports

You can use the following reports to monitor the lifecycle of services and policies:

• Reclamation Report
• Service Fulfillment Report
• Unlinked Files Report