Running jobs to test and remediate server software compliance
This use case lets you use BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping to obtain information about the current state of software applications deployed to servers. Using that information, BMC Server Automation can run jobs that identify servers with software applications that are compliant and deploy software to servers that are not compliant.
To run jobs to test and remediate server software compliance
The following table provides an overview of the tasks required to implement this use case. For each task the table provides more detail by referencing other BMC Software documents, available by clicking the links.
Task | Product involved | Description and reference |
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Step 1. Create a component template | BMC Server Automation | The component template should include a signature that can be used to discover the existence of software applications. The signature can consist of a basic condition that checks for the existence or number of occurrences of a software application object that you choose from the discovered software applications. |
Step 2. Add a compliance rule to the component template | BMC Server Automation | The compliance rule should check for the existence of a particular software application with a particular name and version number. Or, the rule can analyze the properties of a software application to confirm that the application's properties show the correct name and version number. For example, a simple compliance rule could read: |
Step 3. Create and run a Component Discovery Job | BMC Server Automation | Using the component template you created in the previous steps, create and run a Component Discovery Job. The components that the job discovers should correspond to instances of a software application. |
Step 4. Create a Compliance Job | BMC Server Automation | Using the same component template, create a Compliance Job that determines whether servers are in compliance based on the software applications that are discovered on the server. |
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