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Datasheet PRODUCT DESCRIPTION BMC BladeLogic Database Automation is a multi-platform database automation solution that lets database administrators deploy, patch, upgrade and maintain databases in 1/10th the time. With less time needed to keep the lights on, administrators get much more bandwidth to support new apps role outs. BUSINESS CHALLENGE In today’s digital economy, innovative applications depend on fast-performing databases. Skilled database administrators spend a majority of their time ensuring the existing environments are well maintained, compliant, and secure. Security threats seek vulnerabilities at the database level, putting more pressure on IT to keep current on patches and compliance policies, and giving them little time to optimize database configurations and queries, or push out new features for application releases. Add in the complexity of multivendor database environments, clustered configurations, or variations in version levels, and it’s no wonder there’s no time for innovation. How can IT operations ensure rapid and reliable change across the most demanding and heterogeneous database environments? BMC SOLUTION BMC BladeLogic Database Automation improves efficiency, lowers costs, and reduces risk by automating routine administrative tasks and compliance processes. IT operations can accelerate deployment and patching, reduce security vulnerabilities, enforce compliance, and achieve greater productivity by streamlining the database management process. Now, the businesses can stop worrying about the state of their databases, and focus on driving growth. Drive dramatic improvements in speed, cost, and risk for your multi-vendor database environment BMC BladeLogic Database Automation KEY FEATURES Manage multivendor databases with ease. It’s simple – Create a model-based approach and simplify the most complex database environments It’s critical – Leverage the compliance engine to stay continuously compliant and secured It’s reliable – Deploy patches and upgrades across database clusters without increasing downtime It’s fast – Enable full-stack layered provisioning for rapid, automated resource allocation KEY BENEFITS Cut database provisioning time up to 95% including clusters and multi-version database support Help DBAs thrive by reducing manual tasks for highly qualified resources by 85% Expand the ratio of administrators to database without impacting productivity or increasing operational costs Apply patches in 1/10th the time with a compliance engine that ensures consistent governance for database Scale across your physical and cloud- based application environments Reduce downtime and improve quality of service by applying patches in a rolling fashion Focus database administrators on the most important jobs, pending actions, and compliance standards with full reports to measure success – all in one solution.

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—Datasheet

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

BMC BladeLogic Database Automation is a multi-platform database automation solution that lets database administrators deploy, patch, upgrade and maintain databases in 1/10th the time. With less time needed to keep the lights on, administrators get much more bandwidth to support new apps role outs.

BUSINESS CHALLENGE

In today’s digital economy, innovative applications depend on fast-performing databases. Skilled database administrators spend a majority of their time ensuring the existing environments are well maintained, compliant, and secure. Security threats seek vulnerabilities at the database level, putting more pressure on IT to keep current on patches and compliance policies, and giving them little time to optimize database configurations and queries, or push out new features for application releases. Add in the complexity of multivendor database environments, clustered configurations, or variations in version levels, and it’s no wonder there’s no time for innovation. How can IT operations ensure rapid and reliable change across the most demanding and heterogeneous database environments?

BMC SOLUTION

BMC BladeLogic Database Automation improves efficiency, lowers costs, and reduces risk by automating routine administrative tasks and compliance processes. IT operations can accelerate deployment and patching, reduce security vulnerabilities, enforce compliance, and achieve greater productivity by streamlining the database management process. Now, the businesses can stop worrying about the state of their databases, and focus on driving growth.

Drive dramatic improvements in speed, cost, and risk for your multi-vendor database environment

BMC BladeLogic Database Automation

KEY FEATURESManage multivendor databases with ease.

• It’s simple – Create a model-based approach and simplify the most complex database environments

• It’s critical – Leverage the compliance engine to stay continuously compliant and secured

• It’s reliable – Deploy patches and upgrades across database clusters without increasing downtime

• It’s fast – Enable full-stack layered provisioning for rapid, automated resource allocation

KEY BENEFITS• Cut database provisioning time up to 95%

including clusters and multi-version database support

• Help DBAs thrive by reducing manual tasks for highly qualified resources by 85%

• Expand the ratio of administrators to database without impacting productivity or increasing operational costs

• Apply patches in 1/10th the time with a compliance engine that ensures consistent governance for database

• Scale across your physical and cloud-based application environments

• Reduce downtime and improve quality of service by applying patches in a rolling fashion

Focus database administrators on the most important jobs, pending actions, and compliance standards with full reports to measure success – all in one solution.

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BMC delivers software solutions that help IT transform digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive business advantage. We have worked with thousands of leading companies to create and deliver powerful IT management services. From mainframe to cloud to mobile, we pair high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization—allowing our customers to provide amazing user experiences with optimized IT performance, cost, compliance, and productivity. We believe that technology is the heart of every business, and that IT drives business to the digital age.

BMC – Bring IT to Life.

BMC, BMC Software, and the BMC Software logo are the exclusive properties of BMC Software, Inc., are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is the registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. All other BMC trademarks, service marks, and logos may be registered or pending registration in the U.S. or in other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2015 Copyright BMC Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

BMC delivers software solutions that help IT transform digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive business advantage. From mainframe to cloud to mobile, we pair high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization—allowing our customers to provide amazing user experiences with optimized IT performance, cost, compliance, and productivity. We believe :

• Technology is the heart of every business • IT drives business to the digital age

BMC – Bring IT to Life

PRODUCT DETAILS

Model based database automation: Use out-of-the-box templates to provision, configure, deploy and patch databases

Pre-flight Checks: Automate validation to determine if an environment is configured correctly for database provisioning

Compliance Engine: Ensure continuous compliance using industry standards, vendor security patches, and remediation

Environment-aware Management: Discover and capture complex database configurations and interdependencies

Reporting: Improve decision support across your heterogeneous environment by type, target, domain, rule, or standard

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Broad Integration: Interact with other products in the BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite, as well as with the BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite for operator-initiated change automation

Role-based Operations: Provide users access control for provisioning, patching, and granular rollback in support of separation of duties

FOR MORE INFORMATION

To learn more about BMC BladeLogic Database Automation, please visit bmc.com/it-solutions/bladelogic-database-automation.html

Apply the compliance engine to all flavors of your databases to run industry standard compliance policies, associate remediation operations to specific rules, and exclude environments that are not relevant.

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

BMC BladeLogic Server Automation is the industry-leading solution for automated management, control, and enforcement of server configuration changes in the data center and in the cloud.

BUSINESS CHALLENGE

All mission critical applications depend on healthy data center servers to keep the business ahead of the competition. If IT takes too long to provision, configure, or update servers, then the business is at risk from security vulnerabilities, of services deployed on non-regulated shadow IT, or of facing costly fines for non-compliance. With the complexity of a heterogeneous, virtual, and cloud server environment, IT staff struggle just to keep the lights on. Manual efforts are labor-intensive, error-prone, and simply not scalable. Expensive, highly-skilled administrators waste time on homegrown, script-based approaches with limited, temporary results.

BMC SOLUTION

BMC BladeLogic Server Automation provides a policy-based approach for IT administrators to manage their data centers with greater speed, quality, and consistency. Broad support for all major operating systems on physical servers and leading virtualization and cloud platforms lets IT install and configure server changes with ease. Rich out-of-the-box content helps IT automate continuous compliance checks and remediation for regulatory requirements such as PCI-DSS or security standards like DISA. Now IT staff can build, configure, and enforce compliance faster and more reliably. With a simplified web portal, the IT operations team can increase the server to admin ratio, gain productivity, complete audits swiftly, and quickly respond to increasing business demands.

Maintain server compliance and gain administration efficiency 50% faster

BMC BladeLogic Server Automation

KEY FEATURESBMC BladeLogic Server Automation helps sysadmins provision, configure, patch, and maintain physical, virtual, and cloud servers.

• Compliance and risk mitigation – Full cycle of system discovery, monitoring, remediation, and integrated change control, providing continuous compliance with out-of-the-box integration with BMC Remedy ITSM suite

• Full lifecycle management – Focal point of control for the entire server lifecycle, simplifying compliance, provisioning, configuration, patching, and reporting

• Advanced built-in security – Granularrole-based access control system that reduces the risk of misconfiguration and improves systems stability

• Abstracted simplified management –Enable full-stack layered provisioning for rapid, automated resource allocation

KEY BENEFITS• Speed – Maintain compliance twice as

fast with pre-configured compliance policies for detection and enforcement

• Risk – Lower mean time to repair and increase IT efficiency by 87% with an intelligent, closed-loop for automated remediation

• Cost – Slash provisioning time from days to hours with automated provisioning

Dashboards help server administrators instantly assess the health of their server environment.

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BMC delivers software solutions that help IT transform digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive business advantage. We have worked with thousands of leading companies to create and deliver powerful IT management services. From mainframe to cloud to mobile, we pair high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization—allowing our customers to provide amazing user experiences with optimized IT performance, cost, compliance, and productivity. We believe that technology is the heart of every business, and that IT drives business to the digital age.

BMC – Bring IT to Life.

BMC, BMC Software, and the BMC Software logo are the exclusive properties of BMC Software, Inc., are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is the registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. All other BMC trademarks, service marks, and logos may be registered or pending registration in the U.S. or in other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2015 Copyright BMC Software, Inc. All rights reserved.

BMC delivers software solutions that help IT transform digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive business advantage. From mainframe to cloud to mobile, we pair high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization—allowing our customers to provide amazing user experiences with optimized IT performance, cost, compliance, and productivity. We believe :

• Technology is the heart of every business • IT drives business to the digital age

BMC – Bring IT to Life

Broad Support: Operating systems such as Windows®, Linux®, UNIX® and virtualization such as VMware®, Microsoft®, Red Hat®, Citrix®, IBM®, and Oracle®. Integration to BMC solutions for application discovery, full-stack configuration, and change management.

Reporting: Cut the time required to assess the impact of change, or complete an audit with views for compliance, inventory, provisioning, patching, and deployment, including automation value dashboards.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Compliance: Simplify governance with role-based access control, pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP, integrated documentation, and remediation through repair, rollback, or configuration updates

Provisioning: Provision server configurations based on a broad set of supported approaches such as unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning for physical, virtual, and cloud-based data centers

Configuration: Enable administrators to eliminate complexity by consistently managing change and configuration activities across a broad range of server environments with one tool

Patching: Keep your infrastructure in peak condition by applying patches with ease, reducing downtime, and preventing potential security breaches.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

To learn more about BMC BladeLogic Server Automation, please visit bmc.com/bsa

Share the cumulative value of server automation over time.

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BMC Middleware Automation Quickly deploy applications and expertly manage their configurations — without scripting — for faster service delivery and fewer application outages.

DATASHEET

Figure 2. Visualize Java EE server configurations

Key Benefits

» Dramatically reduce application

release cycles from weeks to hours

» Complete deployment and

configuration management —

without scripts — for Java EE™ and

IBM® WebSphere® Portal

applications

» Eliminate errors with consistent

deployments across multiple

environments — physical, virtual, or

cloud

» Enable continuous integration and

continuous deployment initiatives

» Greatly reduce dependence on

experts to handle repetitive and

mundane tasks

» Simplify troubleshooting of

configuration-related problems

» Reduce installation and

configuration risk by eliminating

manual processes

» Improve productivity by eliminating

deployment script maintenance and

release process documentation

Business challenge Cloud computing, web-based applications, and Agile development create unprecedented service

delivery challenges for development and IT operations. As organizations develop and deploy

Java™ Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications more and more quickly, they struggle with the

increasingly complex and time-consuming task of troubleshooting and configuring web

application server environments. The process is typically cumbersome, error prone, and

inefficient, leading to unacceptably long release cycles and frequent service outages.

The BMC solution BMC Middleware Automation deploys, configures, and troubleshoots Java EE applications

quickly, efficiently, and safely. It is a vital tool for anyone who needs to ensure consistency of

deployment environments or quickly diagnose problems in application server configurations.

The solution automates Java EE server configuration management to dramatically accelerate

application release cycles and virtually eliminate the costly errors that result from manual or

scripted approaches. It compresses development, test, and release iterations to do what Agile

development, continuous integration, and cloud

computing are intended to do: deliver new

business services faster, at less cost, and with

greater reliability.

Model-based configuration management Using a data-modeling approach, BMC

Middleware Automation interrogates any

supported web application server to create a

configuration snapshot — an abstract model of

all unique settings and their interdependencies.

You can compare snapshots to detect

configuration drift over time or to quickly identify

inconsistencies between servers that can affect performance. This is a ―must have‖ diagnostic

capability for anyone responsible for service delivery with Java EE applications. BMC

Figure 1. Dramatically accelerate application release cycles

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Figure 3. Changes are captured in detailed reports

Middleware Automation uses its internal data model to enforce data integrity and maintain

correct values of interdependent settings, so you can edit snapshots with confidence to create

new server configurations.

Distributed application deployment For application deployment, BMC Middleware Automation combines a configuration with one or

more Java EE applications (EAR, WAR, or JAR files) to create a deployment package. Any

necessary variations across environments, such as server names, database connections, and

clustering, can be represented with tokens that are replaced with their correct values at

deployment. This maintains release process integrity by adapting deployment packages to target

environments without actually modifying their contents. Applications and configurations are

transferred directly to application servers (no FTP) running in any environment (physical, virtual,

or cloud). The solution eliminates variations in deployment packages and environment

configurations, while also ensuring consistent test results, preventing service outages, and

avoiding long hours of root cause analysis.

Auditing and compliance reporting By comparing snapshots over time, BMC Middleware

Automation not only audits servers to detect configuration

drift, but also can quickly remediate non-compliant servers

by surgically updating incorrect settings. Establishing and

maintaining standards for application server configurations

and documenting adherence to those policies are the

essence of compliance reporting. BMC Middleware

Automation produces extensive pre-installation,

installation, and comparison reports to support

comprehensive compliance reporting. Details captured in

reports include who made the changes, when the changes

were made, which servers were affected, and exactly

what was changed, including before and after values.

Application server migration For many customers using older versions of IBM

® WebSphere

® and Oracle

® WebLogic,

migrating to a newer version is a top priority. However conventional server migrations require a

lot of time and effort documenting old configurations and translating them to the new version.

Even after that substantial investment, there is often the unpleasant discovery that applications

do not run reliably, and finding the underlying problem is another diagnostic nightmare.

BMC Middleware Automation automates the migration of IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic

application server configurations from older to newer versions. Performing a migration is just a

special case of installing a configuration. BMC Middleware Automation uses its abstract data

model to translate the old configuration to the newer release. With this capability alone, BMC

customers have saved thousands of person-hours and delivered reliably working applications on

currently supported versions of WebSphere and WebLogic.

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Figure 4. Comprehensive Portal deployment support

Support for IBM WebSphere Portal Portals are popular for their ability to aggregate content, personalize applications, and flexibly

manage the look and feel of web-based applications. The problem is that with so much flexibility,

the configuration and deployment of Portal applications can create real headaches.

With its data-modeling

approach to configuration

management, BMC

Middleware Automation

introduces an innovative and

powerful capability to handle

the dependencies that must

be managed when making

changes to — or releasing

new — Portlets,

applications, themes, skins,

and content. Just as it does

for Java EE application

servers, BMC Middleware

Automation enables IBM

WebSphere Portal

customers to deploy, manage, and configure their Portal instances without the use of scripts or

manual intervention. It auto-detects dependencies and also packages new releases for

automated and seamless delivery across development, test, stage, and production

environments. It has the intelligence to include any dependencies in a deployment package. As a

result, you no longer have to manually hunt for dependencies and discover them for yourself.

Dependency management reduces complexity for Portal administrators and enables more rapid

revisions and additions to your Portal environment.

With BMC, Portals become as easy to configure and deploy as they are to use — whether in

physical, virtual, or cloud environments.

Alignment with best practices The integrity of an application release process depends on consistency of deployment packages

and environments. In-flight changes to either packages or environments can introduce

inconsistencies that produce unpredictable results, including late delivery, poor application

performance, and expensive outages. BMC Middleware Automation ensures deployment

package consistency with parameterization and environmental consistency by making it easy to

establish and maintain standardized configurations. Not only does the solution dramatically

accelerate productivity, it does so with more predictable results at less cost.

Integration with BMC Release Lifecycle Management BMC Middleware Automation is available as a stand-alone product or as a fully integrated

component of BMC Release Lifecycle Management, part of the BMC Application Management

Suite. This suite delivers comprehensive release planning, task coordination, automated

deployment, configuration management, and performance management — from Development to

Operations.

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Technical Capabilities » Snapshot: Automatically obtain configuration information from a known good instance. See

exactly how your server is configured at a glance.

» Compare: Compare configuration snapshots from different servers for an ―apples to apples‖

inventory of what is different across environments. Save hours of troubleshooting when time is

critical.

» Dependencies: Select the part of your Portal that you want to promote through your release

environments and automatically detect and promote the additional portions of your Portal that are

dependent on the portions you selected.

» Clusters: Manage function independent of topology. Go from a stand-alone development

instance to a clustered production instance with ease.

» Preview: Take deployments through a dry run to see what changes will be made without making

them. Know what is going to happen before it happens and eliminate surprises.

» Install: Configure the application server and deploy the application in an intelligent and automated

manner. No more scripts or manual steps.

» Update: Only make the changes to the application server that it needs to in order to fully configure

the server. No more incremental scripts or ―hot fixes‖ – catch up from any starting point to where

that server needs to be.

» Rollback: Roll back to the last known good state if all or part of an installation fails. Your

application server will never be left in a non-functioning state.

» Migrate: Automatically migrate older server configurations to new versions in minutes. Save

months of lost productivity and avoid elevated support fees.

» Audit: Establish standard configurations and regularly compare production servers against the

standard.

» Report: Log and capture all changes, including old and new settings, in detailed reports that can

be saved as PDFs and used for change tracking and compliance reports.

Part of a Comprehensive Service Automation Solution BMC Middleware Automation can be integrated to pre-production systems, such as source code

control, build managers, and access control solutions. In addition, it can be integrated with the

BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite, BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management, and

the BMC Atrium CMDB.

For More Information To learn more on BMC Middleware Automation, please visit

http://www.bmc.com/products/product-listing/middleware-automation.html.

BUSINESS RUNS ON I.T.

I.T. RUNS ON BMC SOFTWARE.

Business runs better when IT runs at its

best. Tens of thousands of IT

organizations around the world -- from

small and mid-market businesses to the

Global 100 -- rely on BMC Software

(NASDAQ: BMC) to manage their

business services and applications

across distributed, mainframe, virtual and

cloud environments. BMC helps

customers cut costs, reduce risk and

achieve business objectives with the

broadest choice of IT management

solutions, including industry-leading

Business Service Management and

Cloud Management offerings. For the

four fiscal quarters ended September 30,

2012, BMC revenue was approximately

$2.2 billion.

BMC, BMC Software, and the BMC Software logo are the exclusive properties of BMC Software, Inc., are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. All other BMC trademarks, service marks, and logos may be registered or pending registration in the U.S. or in other countries. WebSphere and IBM are trademarks or registered trademarks of International

Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2010, 2011, 2012 BMC Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Origin date: 03/10

Supported Platforms:

» IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.1,

6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 8.0, 8.5

» IBM WebSphere Portal 5.0, 6.0, 6.1,

6.1.5, 7.0

» IBM WebSphere Virtual Enterprise 6.1,

7.0

» IBM WebSphere Process Server 6.2,

7.0

» Oracle WebLogic Server 8.1, 9.2, 10.0,

10.3, 11g (10.3.x), 12c

» Red Hat JBoss Application Server 4.2,

5.1, 6.0

» Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application

Platform 4.3, 5.1

» Apache Tomcat 6.0, 7.0

» SpringSource tc Server

» Apache Geronimo 2.2, 3.0

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BMC Network Automation BMC Network Automation is the industry-leading solution for automated management, control, and enforcement of network configuration changes in the data center. As part of the BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite, it provides a cross-platform solution for managing both physical and virtual assets — in the traditional data center and in the cloud.

DATASHEET

Key Benefits » Reduce operational costs by

automating manual and error-prone activities

» Reduce service downtime through policy-based configuration management

» Streamline service provisioning by consolidating and centralizing provisioning activities across all platforms

» Manage physical and virtual network resources in traditional and cloud environments from a single platform

» Improve operational productivity by increasing network device-to-admin ratio and securely sharing workload

» Consistently enforce compliance with regulatory, security, and operational compliance policies

» Improve security by reducing the time to remediate known vulnerabilities

» Manage change activity by reporting on the “who, what, when, and where” of change — regardless of where it is initiated

» Automate audit cycles with built-in compliance reports

» Assess the impact of change on critical business services

Business Challenge IT faces numerous challenges, such as growing complexity, cost-reduction mandates, compliance

regulations, and pressure to be more responsive to business needs. Many organizations struggle to meet

these challenges, and recognize that current approaches are simply not going to work. Manual operations

tend to be reactive, labor-intensive, error-prone, and heavily reliant on skilled individuals. Even organizations

that have invested in point solutions or homegrown, script-based approaches are recognizing their limits,

and are looking for a comprehensive automation solution built on a single, unified platform.

The BMC Solution BMC Network Automation enables IT to implement a policy-based automation solution for managing the

data center, while also ensuring highest uptime for critical business services. It provides a single platform for

managing physical and virtual network devices — across all major platforms. Supported by a robust security

model, it dramatically reduces operational costs, improves operational quality, and enables operational

compliance by addressing three main areas: Configuration, Provisioning, and Compliance.

Configuration Configuration management tasks often make up the bulk of data center activities, including patching,

configuring, updating, and reporting on network devices. By shielding users from underlying complexity,

BMC Network Automation enables consistency in change and configuration management activities. At the

same time, subject to security constraints, it exposes sufficient detail about network devices under

management to ensure effective and accurate administrative activities.

Features

» Real-time and historical visibility into configuration and change attributes

» Pre-built templates and jobs that simplify configuration definition and accelerate network changes

» SmartMerge Technology that automatically creates scripts

Provisioning With support for all leading operating systems and virtualization platforms, BMC Network Automation

simplifies and expedites the configuration of network devices in multi-tiered networks, including VLANs and

associated services for fire-walling, load-balancing, and WAN acceleration. It also enables IT to change

network device configurations easily and deploy Access Control List (ACL) changes that support adds,

moves, and changes of other service resources, such as servers, without service disruptions.

Features

» SmartMerge Technology that deploys changes without rebooting network devices

» Smart ACL Management that deploys access control lists (ACLs) to network devices without exposing

the network to potential security vulnerabilities

» Smart Syntax Scanning that automatically verifies command syntax with device before execution

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Pre-built Rules » 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

Compliance Most IT organizations are required to maintain network device configurations in compliance with policy,

whether regulatory (SOX, PCI, or HIPAA), security (NIST, DISA, or CIS), or operational. BMC Network

Automation helps IT achieve and maintain compliance by defining and applying configuration policies.

When a network configuration deviates from policy, the solution generates remediation instructions and

creates jobs to automatically or manually change the network device to the trusted configuration.

Features

» Automated auditing and drift detection with automatic remediation and rollback

» Pre-configured compliance policies for regulatory and security standards

» Operating system patch and upgrade management

Virtualization and Cloud Computing BMC’s industry-leading automation platform seamlessly enables enterprise-class provisioning and

configuration across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It provides the core automation and

compliance functionality for the BMC 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 networks for full-stack, multi-tier applications in virtual and cloud environments

» Securely incorporate virtual and cloud services into enterprise and multi-tenant networks

Reporting Through add-on functionality provided by BMC BladeLogic Decision Support for Network Automation, BMC

helps you understand how IT change impacts data center operations, performance, and quality — and how

these changes affect underlying business services. You gain immediate insight into wide-scale change

occurring across network infrastructure, coupled with the ability to drill-down to a granular level, helping you

make informed business decisions and reducing the negative impact of failed changes.

Features

» Out-of-the-box, ad-hoc, and consolidated reports for compliance, inventory, provisioning, patch, and

deployment

» Complex reporting capabilities, such as pivot tables, trending, and data correlation

» Role-based access control

Key Integrations BMC Network Automation integrates with the BMC Atrium CMDB and the BMC Remedy IT Service

Management (ITSM) Suite. Bi-directional integration with the BMC Atrium CMDB is built-in, allowing

administrators to make service-aware operational decisions, thus improving effectiveness. BMC Atrium

Orchestrator, part of the BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite, provides integration with the BMC Remedy

ITSM Suite to enable closed-loop compliance by linking change management with change execution.

Alignment with Best Practices BMC Network Automation integrates and automates change, release, and configuration management

processes across the entire change lifecycle, eliminating time-consuming and error-prone manual handoffs

across groups. In addition, it automatically closes the loop on all changes, keeping change management

staff apprised of the status of changes and indicating the success or failure of change implementations.

For More Information To learn more on BMC Network Automation, please visit www.bmc.com.

BUSINESS RUNS ON I.T. I.T. RUNS ON BMC SOFTWARE. Business runs better when IT runs at its

best. That’s why more than 25,000 IT

organizations – from the Global 100 to

the smallest businesses – in over 120

countries rely on BMC Software to

manage their business services and

applications across distributed,

mainframe, virtual and cloud

environments. With the leading Business

Service Management platform, Cloud

Management, and the industry’s broadest

choice of IT management solutions, BMC

helps customers cut costs, reduce risk

and achieve business objectives. For the

four fiscal quarters ended December 31,

2011, BMC revenue was approximately

$2.2 billion.

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