Automation for Servers

Drive greater compliance, security, and reliability through policy-based application of operational, security, and regulatory guidelines.

• Use Automation for Servers in conjunction with BMC Helix Automation Console to automate public cloud server compliance
• Harden deployments and maintain compliance with a full cycle of system discovery, drift detection, remediation, and reporting
• Achieve compliance rapidly with pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX
• Integrate with change control to create historical, auditable records to check compliance of any system at any time

Quickly reduce the attack surface by automating patch, configuration, and change management to close vulnerabilities.

• Prioritize vulnerabilities based on severity and business impact with integrated vulnerability management, so Security and IT Operations teams can make security decisions that also protect uptime and stability
• Obtain a consolidated view of server and network vulnerabilities
• Increase IT efficiency by up to 200% by leveraging integrations with Discovery and ITSM and deploying scalable, automated, closed loop change and configuration management
• Optimize maintenance windows for physical, virtual, and cloud-based data centers

• Automated patch management of servers whether on-premises or in the cloud
• Works with BMC Helix Automation Console to automate server patching and compliance in your public cloud
• Download patch catalog information from vendors or third parties and analyze servers
• Create smart groups representing applications or business services with separate patching jobs, schedule to fit maintenance windows, and get real-time status of patch jobs in process
• Use ad hoc tasks or Network Shell (NSH) to automate rolling patch implementations for clustered servers
• Integrate with ITSM to open and close change tickets automatically

Provision, configure, inspect, update, audit, and secure cross-platform servers with a single, multi-platform solution that improves administrator efficiency.

• Perform ad hoc administrative tasks such as configuration inspection, virtual machine creation, or snapshot creation, all through a single interface
• Run network shell (NSH) commands or your pre-existing scripts across multiple platforms, and run Powershell scripts natively, to automate end-to-end tasks
• Execute job qualification checks to set the number of targeted servers to improve deployment quality and reliability
• Automate build-out of service or application from VM provisioning to fully operational
• Accelerate delivery of software updates or full applications as part of DevOps processes
• Capture gold master images and apply to other servers and then manage deviations