Software AG Command Central is a tool that enables you to install, patch, configure, manage, and upgrade Software AG products; create database components; and connect products to database components, remotely from one location. Command Central offers a browser-based user interface. You can also automate tasks by using commands to remotely execute actions from a terminal or custom script. Command Central supports continuous integration servers such as Jenkins, and generic configuration management tools such as Puppet and Chef.

This release of Command Central can manage Software AG products that are release 9.0 or later. Software AG recommends always using the newest Command Central with your products so you can take advantage of the most up-to-date features as well as stability, usability, and security enhancements. If you have an older Command Central, you can upgrade to the newest release even if you are not upgrading your products. See the Software AG Command Central Feature Support Matrix for the list of products you can manage using Command Central and the features that are supported for each release of those products.

With Command Central, you can work with existing standalone product installations or create new ones. If you are following DevOps practices, you can create software stacks of product runtimes. For each case, you create repositories from which to install products (9.8 and later) and install fixes (9.7 and later).

The upgrade procedure for software stacks is simpler than the procedure for standalone product installations. For stacks, Command Central automatically generates composite templates that you can then use to upgrade a single environment or to automate the upgrade of multiple environments. If you are not yet using stacks, you can create stacks from the installations you want to upgrade. For instructions on all of these topics, see Upgrading Software AG Products On Premises.

When the host servers in your environments do not have internet access, you can install one Command Central on a machine that has internet access. Then you install one or more Command Centrals to manage your development and test environments, and one or more Command Centrals to manage the production environments. The Command Central with internet access can connect to the Software AG repositories on Empower so you can download the products and fixes you have licensed. The hosts in each environment then get the Software AG products and fixes through the mirror repositories registered in the Command Central that manages that environment. The Command Centrals that manage your environments must have access:

Platform Manager is the agent for Command Central. Platform Manager is installed with every Command Central and in every product installation. When you submit requests for actions against a product installation, Command Central directs the requests to the Platform Manager in that installation, and the Platform Manager executes the action. Platform Manager is always the same release as the products.

The Command Central graphical user interface provides instructions and tooltips to help you perform tasks. Instructions for performing tasks using the GUI is provided in this online help only when additional information is necessary.