Abstract: An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to receive a request to collect configuration information for a source application and to establish a connection to an application session associated with the source application. The processing device is also configured to emulate, via the application session, execution of tasks in the source application, wherein emulating the execution of at least one of the tasks comprises automatically navigating to at least one view of a graphical user interface of the source application and executing at least one function that updates an output of the at least one view. The processing device is further configured to capture at least a portion of the configuration information for the source application from the output of the at least one view, and to perform one or more management actions for the source application utilizing the captured portion of the configuration information.