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 support 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).

You install one Command Central on a machine that has Internet access. This Command Central connects to the Software AG Software Download Center (SDC) and the Empower Product Support website so you can download the products and fixes you have licensed.

You install one or more Command Centrals to manage your development and test environments, and one or more Command Centrals to manage production environments. These Command Centrals do not need Internet access but must have access to the machines that host the products you want to manage.

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.