The following topics introduce you to the concept of compliance management in BMC BladeLogic Server Automation (BSA).
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This section includes the following topics:
| Topic | What is it about? |
|---|---|
| This topic introduces you to the concept of compliance in BSA. | |
| Walkthrough: Restricting permissions for a Compliance officer | This topic walks you through the process of setting up a Compliance officer, who is in charge of performing compliance analyses, and limiting permissions so that this user cannot perform other types of actions in BSA. |
| Walkthrough: Loading compliance content | This topic walks you through the process of loading compliance content. Compliance Content libraries contain rule sets to automatically analyze the compliance of servers with regulatory standards and best-practice policies, including HIPAA, DISA STIG, SOX, PCI, and CIS. |
| Walkthrough: Creating a compliance template | This topic walks you through the process of creating a simple compliance template using BSA. |
| Walkthrough: Compliance audit based on a policy | This topic walks you through the process of performing a compliance audit based on a policy. |
| Walkthrough: Reviewing the results of a compliance check | This topic walks you through the process of examining the results of a compliance check and then exporting those results into a report. |
| Walkthrough: Remediating a compliance failure | This topic walks you through the process of remediating a compliance failure, that is, correcting deficiencies that were discovered on a server by a Compliance Job. |
| Walkthrough: Creating exceptions for compliance rules | This topic walks you through the process of using Compliance Job results to create an exception for a compliance rule and then running the Compliance Job again to see how the results show the exception. |
| Walkthrough: Creating remediation objects for a compliance template | This topic walks you through the process of using BSA to create a remediation object that can be deployed to servers that fail a Compliance Job. Deploying the remediation object can make the failed server compliant. |
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To examine the process of using the BladeLogic Portal to run a Compliance operations that checks whether servers adhere to payment card industry (PCI) standards, see Example of checking servers for PCI compliance in the BMC Bladelogic Portal online technical documentation.
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