BMC Configuration Automation for Networks (BCA-N)

Most organizations lack control of network configuration baselines and changes, which directly leads to unnecessary service problems. Lack of change visibility and auditing, combined with manual remediation prolongs the time to recover from problematic changes. In addition, implementing change is manual, time-consuming, error-prone and costly. No time is left to audit and enforce configuration standards (e.g., security, connectivity, performance) on a routine basis to ensure consistency and stability. Insufficient resources are available to appropriately react to vendor security advisories or implement new projects. As a result, IT organizations are seeking solutions that perform the following:

• Reduce network outages and incidents due to change
• Eliminate unplanned and unauthorized changes
• Reduce MTTR
• Improve network security and enforces best practices
• Improve resource efficiencies through automation
• Eliminate repetitive and time-consuming manual processes
• Satisfy compliance and IT governance initiatives
• Demonstrate real-time compliance with ITIL, SOX, PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, and other mandatory initiatives without draining resources
• Provide quick time-to-value

• Provides the who/what/where/when of planned, unplanned and unauthorized changes instantly
• Allows quick and non-disruptive configuration changes including rollback
• Proactively correlates network outages with recent changes to identify possible impact
• Audits and enforces configuration standards (e.g., security, performance, routing)
• Simplifies implementation of mass change requests in a multi-vendor network environment
• Automates and integrates the change workflow process with Remedy
  
  

• Trusted Configurations - provides a baseline for comparing all changes.
• SmartMerge Technology- automatically creates scripts to allow for changes (new and rollbacks) to be pushed into the device without having to reboot the device (non-disruptively).
• Smart ACL Management - provides the mechanism to push ACLs (Access Control Lists) into a device without exposing the device to potential security vulnerabilities.
• Syntax Scanning - provides the ability to check the SmartMerge script commands against the device to insure correct syntax and that the current OS on the device supports these commands.