Integrating with Cisco Data Center Services Node

This section contains topics that describe the integration between BMC Network Automation and Cisco Data Center Services Node:

BMC Network Automation supports the following features specific to management of the Cisco Data Center Services Node:

Automated discovery and initial configuration of each Cisco Firewall Service Module and Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) module in a Cisco Data Center Services Node
Out-of-the-box transparent and routed end-to-end VLAN design templates
Out-of-the-box network path configuration when provisioning web, exchange, and SQL servers
Central management of Cisco 6500, Cisco ACE, and Cisco Firewall Service Module

The following features extend to the rest of the data center:

Integrating with BMC Server Automation Suite or UCS Manager
Extending to full cloud management and ecosystem
Managing network devices for multiple vendors from a single platform
Auditing and enforcing compliance to configuration best practices
Detecting, auditing, and reporting on all changes (who, what, where, when)
Enabling users to perform network change and compliance tasks with business service context through its integration with BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
Enabling users to track and approve network changes through BMC Remedy Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) Change Management system
Allowing organizations to automatically open Incident tickets in BMC Remedy ITSM Incident Management system when network change events are detected
Implementing a reliable snapshot and recovery process
Proactively assessing and reporting service impacting changes
Automation of configuration rollback, configuration updates, and standards enforcement by SmartMerge Technology
Support for the change workflow process that subjects change requests to review and approval
Automatically grouping devices for network change and configuration operations based on device attributes
Enforcing a role-based user security model
Supporting multi-tenancy using realms

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