--- title: About the manage-profile tool description: The manage-profile tool subcommands for creating, applying, and replacing server profiles. component: pingdirectory version: 10.2 page_id: pingdirectory:pingdirectoryproxy_server_administration_guide:pd_proxy_manage_profile_tool canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingdirectory/11.1/pingdirectory_server_administration_guide/pd_ds_manage_profile_tool.html llms_txt: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingdirectory/llms.txt docs_for_agents: https://developer.pingidentity.com/build-with-ai/docs-for-agents.md revdate: 2024-07-05T00:00:00Z --- # About the manage-profile tool The `manage-profile` tool is provided with the server to work with server profiles. It includes subcommands for creating, applying, and replacing server profiles, all of which significantly reduce the effort required by an administrator to configure a server appropriately. The following sections describe these subcommands in more detail. For more information about the `manage-profile` tool, run `manage-profile --help`. For more information about each individual subcommand and its options, run `manage-profile --help`.