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BMC Server Automation: Business Challenge
BMC Server Automation: Business Challenge
BMC Server Automation: Business Challenge
UNIX
Virtualization Support
VMware
Microsoft
Red Hat
Citrix
IBM
Oracle
Compliance Policies
Center for Internet Security
(CIS)
Defense Information Systems
Agency (DISA)
Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Payment Card Industry (PCI)
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act
National Institute of Standards
(NIST) Security Configuration
Automation Protocol (SCAP)
Compliance
Most IT organizations are required to maintain their server configurations in compliance with some sort of
policy, whether regulatory (SOX, PCI, or HIPAA), security (NIST, DISA, or CIS), or operational. BMC Server
Automation helps IT organizations achieve and maintain compliance by defining and applying configuration
policies. When a server or application configuration deviates from policy, the necessary remediation
instructions are automatically generated and packaged, and can be either automatically or manually
deployed on the server.
Features
Configuration remediation through repair, rollback, or configuration updates
Integrated policy-exception documentation
Pre-configured compliance policies for regulatory and security standards
Virtualization and Cloud Computing
BMCs industry-leading automation platform seamlessly enables enterprise-class provisioning and
configuration across physical, virtual, and hybrid cloud environments. In fact, it provides the core automation
and compliance functionality for BMCs Cloud Lifecycle Management platform, including provisioning full-
stack, multi-tier cloud services, security and patch compliance, and configuration automation.
Features
Provision, configure, and manage heterogeneous cloud services in a single platform
Deploy full-stack, multi-tier applications to virtual and cloud environments with bare-metal and
template-based provisioning
Consolidate virtual server configuration and management with traditional server management
Build the automation and provisioning foundation for adopting BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management
Reporting
BMC BladeLogic Decision Support - Server Automation helps you understand how IT change impacts data
center operations, performance, and quality and how these changes affect the underlying business
services supported by the server infrastructure. You gain immediate insight into wide-scale change
occurring across the server infrastructure, coupled with the ability to drill-down to a granular level.
Features
Out-of-the-box and ad-hoc reports for compliance, inventory, provisioning, patch, and deployment
Consolidated virtualization reports across all hypervisor platforms
Complex reporting capabilities, such as pivot tables, trending, and data correlation
Role-based access control
Key Integrations
BMC Server Automation integrates with both the BMC Atrium CMDB and the BMC Remedy IT Service
Management Suite. Bi-directional integration with the BMC Atrium CMDB is built-in, allowing administrators
to make service-aware operational decisions, thus improving their effectiveness. BMC Atrium Orchestrator,
part of the BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite, provides integration with the BMC Remedy IT Service
Management Suite to enable true closed-loop compliance by linking change management with change
execution.
For More Information
To learn more on BMC Server Automation, please visit www.bmc.com.
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