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Digital Enterprise Automation

BMC BladeLogic
Server Automation
Maintain server compliance and accelerate Digital Enterprise Management

IT/Ops productivity by 200% DIGITAL DIGITAL

SERVICE ENTERPRISE
MANAGEMENT AUTOMATION
ANALYTICS
ORCHESTRATION
DIGITAL POLICY DIGITAL
INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICE
OPTIMIZATION ASSURANCE

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION KEY FEATURES

BMC BladeLogic Server Automation is the industry-leading solution for automated BMC BladeLogic Server Automation helps
management, control, and enforcement of server configuration changes in the data sysadmins provision, configure, patch, and
maintain physical, virtual, and cloud servers.
center and in the cloud.
Compliance and risk mitigation

BUSINESS CHALLENGE Full cycle of system discovery, monitoring,

remediation, and integrated change
All mission critical applications depend on healthy data center servers to keep the control, providing continuous compliance
business ahead of the competition. If IT takes too long to provision, configure, with out-of-the-box integration with
or update servers, then the business is at risk from security vulnerabilities, of BMC Remedy ITSM suite
services deployed on non-regulated shadow IT, or of facing costly fines for Full lifecycle management Focal point
non-compliance. With the complexity of a heterogeneous, virtual, and cloud server of control for the entire server lifecycle,
environment, IT staff struggle just to meet SLAs for uptime and stability. Manual simplifying compliance, provisioning,
configuration, patching, and reporting
efforts are labor-intensive, error-prone, and simply not scalable. Expensive, highly-
skilled administrators waste time on homegrown, script-based approaches with Advanced built-in security Granular

limited, temporary results. role-based access control system that

reduces the risk of misconfiguration and
improves systems stability
BMC SOLUTION
Abstracted simplified management
BMC BladeLogic Server Automation provides a policy-based approach for IT Enable full-stack layered provisioning for
administrators to manage their data centers with greater speed, quality, and rapid, automated resource allocation
consistency. Broad support for all major operating systems on physical servers and
leading virtualization and cloud platforms lets IT install and configure server changes KEY BENEFITS
with ease. Rich out-of-the-box content helps IT automate continuous compliance Speed Maintain compliance twice as
checks and remediation for regulatory requirements. Now IT staff can build, fast with pre-configured compliance
configure, and enforce compliance faster and more reliably. With a simplified web policies for detection and enforcement
portal, the IT operations team can increase the server to admin ratio, gain productivity, Risk Lower mean time to repair and
complete audits swiftly, and quickly respond to increasing business demands. increase IT efficiency by 87% with an
intelligent, closed-loop for automated
remediation
Cost Slash provisioning time from days to
hours with automated provisioning

Prioritize remediation for the most

important security threats
PRODUCT DETAILS
Threat Remediation: Combine with BMC BladeLogic Out of the Box Support: Operating systems such as
Threat Director for an unprecedented security and Windows , Linux , UNIX and virtualization such as VMware ,

compliance solution. Intuitive dashboards automatically Microsoft Windows , Linux , UNIX and virtualization such

link vulnerabilities to identified patches and create an as VMware , Microsoft , Red Hat , Citrix , IBM , and Oracle .

attack plan to deploy countermeasures on demand. Integration to BMC solutions for application discovery,
full-stack configuration, and change management. Leverage
Compliance: Simplify governance with role-based access
content from open source vendors like Chef as well as

control, pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI,

deploy and scan Docker containers.
SOX, NIST, and SCAP, integrated documentation, and
remediation through repair, rollback, or configuration updates. Reporting: Cut the time required to assess the impact of
change, or complete an audit with views for compliance,
Provisioning: Provision server configurations based on a
inventory, provisioning, patching, and deployment,
broad set of supported approaches such as unattended installs
including automation value dashboards.
and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning
for physical, virtual, and cloud-based data centers.

Configuration: Enable administrators to eliminate complexity

FOR MORE INFORMATION
by consistently managing change and configuration activities
across a broad range of server environments with one tool. To learn more about BMC BladeLogic Server
Automation, please visit bmc.com/bsatrial
Patching: Keep your infrastructure in peak condition by
applying patches with ease, reducing downtime, and
preventing potential security breaches.

Monitor the health of servers by server type, agent, job and more

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