The 1.9 release of Sonatype CLM introduces a wide range of expanded functionality that encourages improved categorization of your applications, as well as a number of new features aimed at helping you fine-tune your policies.
The features and improvements for this release affect the following CLM components:
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Depending on what components your company has purchased and/or uses, you will want to make sure you update your entire Sonatype CLM Suite. |
At the core of this release is the introduction of Tags. Tags provide a way to identify specific characteristics that applications share, and direct policies to be matched to applications with those tags.
We’ll discuss tags in more detail in the next section. However, in addition to tags, this release also includes improvements to:
As we mentioned, tags provide a way to identify common characteristics (e.g. distributed) for applications in your organizations. Tags are created at the organization level, and then be applied to individual applications. Not all applications will (or should) have the same tags, which is where the next element of tags, gives you even more flexibility in fine-tuning your policies and policy management processes.
Policies now have an additional option which allows you to select certain applications based on their tags. If an application has applied this tag, it will be evaluated against that policy. Now, you have an easy way to establish both more relaxed, as well as more stringent policies, depending on the risk or level of quality associated with the application.
There’s even more to tags than policies and applications though, this latest feature also includes:
