BSM environment recommendations

BMC Dashboards and Analytics Suite 7.6.04

BMC Analytics for Business Service Management

7.6.04

The BMC Analytics for Business Service Management (BMC Analytics for BSM) application provides out-of-the-box interactive reporting and analysis that enables technical and non-technical users to quickly examine data for trends and details associated with how IT is supporting business services and goals.

platform

BMC Atrium Core:

• BMC Atrium CMDB
• BMC Atrium Integrator
• Product Catalog
• Service Catalog
• Atrium Web Services 

7.6.04

SP 2
+ hotfix (Normalization Engine)

Provides a configuration management database (BMC Atrium CMDB) coupled with common user, programmatic, and reporting interfaces to accelerate attainment of BSM.

• BMC Atrium CMDB stores information about the configuration items (CIs) in your IT environment and the relationships between them. Data consumers such as the BMC Remedy Asset Management product read data from the production dataset.
• The BMC Atrium Integration Engine (AIE) product enables you to transfer data between an external datastore and BMC Atrium CMDB or the BMC Remedy Action Request System product.
• The Product Catalog provides a normalized reference of software, hardware, and other types of products and their characteristics that enhance the accuracy of BMC Discovery products by uniquely identifying a product regardless of installed name or location.

BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping

8.3

Provides an automated method for discovering, cataloging, and maintaining a company's configuration data.

BMC Dashboards and Analytics Suite

BMC Dashboards for Business Service Management

7.6.03

The BMC Dashboards for Business Service Management (BMC Dashboards for BSM) application provides highly interactive, timely access to key service support metrics to help IT management optimize decisions and accelerate the alignment of IT with business goals.

BMC Remedy IT Service Management

BMC Service Level Management

7.6.04

SP 1 + hotfix

The BMC Service Level Management application enables a service provider, such as an IT organization, a customer support group, or an external service provider, to formally document the needs of its customers or lines of business by using service level agreements, and to provide the correct level of service to meet those needs.

BMC IT Business Management

7.6.04

SP 1

BMC IT Business Management provides IT leaders visibility into costs, activities, assets, resources, and suppliers to effectively manage the IT business and ensure business alignment.

BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 2.1.00

BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management

2.1.00 

SP1  + hotfix

Provides a complete solution for establishing a cloud environment, including a Service Catalog that defines service offerings, a self-service console for procuring resources, and cloud management capabilities.

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management 8.6.20

BMC Transaction Management Application Response Time, either Infrastructure Edition or Service Level Edition

3.9.00

Enables you to manage the performance and reliability of your worldwide applications to measure site health based on end-user experience metrics, such as availability, accuracy, and performance.

BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite 8.1.03

BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite

8.1.03

Automate the management, control, and enforcement of configuration changes across servers, networks, databases, and applications in the traditional data center and in the cloud.

BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite 8.1.03

BMC Application Release Automation - Enterprise Edition  
BMC Application Release Automation - Standard Edition

8.1.03

8.1.02

BMC BladeLogic Application Release Automation automates the long list of discrete tasks needed to deploy Web applications and dramatically simplifies the process, making it easier and less expensive for organizations to leverage Web application server technology.

BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite 8.1.03

BMC Atrium Orchestrator Platform

7.6.01.04 *

Delivers workflow-based process templates, with which customers can rapidly adapt and deploy functional design to ensure consistent and appropriate, policy-based response across the enterprise.

BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite 8.1.03

BMC Atrium Orchestrator Content Installer

7.6.05.01,
Cloud AR 2.1.00

Content installer for BMC Atrium Orchestrator.

BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite 8.1.03

BMC BladeLogic Client Automation

8.2.00 **

Enables administrators to manage software changes, manage content changes, configure endpoints, and collect inventory information.

NA

BMC BladeLogic Client Automation Discovery Integration for CMDB
 

8.2.00

Integrates discovered configuration data with the BMC Remedy IT Service Management suite of products. This integration enables you to use BMC Remedy Asset Management, BMC Remedy Change Management, BMC Remedy Incident Management, and BMC Remedy Problem Management to access accurate, real-time information about IT infrastructure components across your enterprise.

BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite 8.1.03

BMC BladeLogic Decision Support for Network Automation

8.1.03***

A web-based reporting and analytics tool, used together with the BMC BladeLogic Network Automation solution to provide extensive reporting capabilities based on the network devices you manage.

BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite 8.1.03

BMC BladeLogic Decision Support for Server Automation

8.1

SP 3

A web-based reporting application that provides extensive report capabilities related to your data center servers that are managed by BMC BladeLogic. BMC Service Automation Reporting and Analytics uses rich data warehouse schema and dimensional modeling principles to access and report on historical data captured by BMC BladeLogic.

BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite 8.1.03

BMC BladeLogic Integration with Atrium

8.1

SP 3

Enables integration between BMC BladeLogic and Atrium components.

BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite 8.1.03

BMC BladeLogic Network Automation

8.1.03

Manages change, configuration and compliance of network assets.

BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite 8.1.03

BMC BladeLogic Server Automation

8.1.03

Acts as a platform for the management, control and enforcement of configuration changes in the data center.

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management 8.6.20

BMC Capacity Management - Capacity Optimization

4.5 

SP1

Automatically analyze, forecast, and optimize performance and capacity across all resources (IT and business) and environments — physical, virtual, and cloud.

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management 8.6.20

BMC Portal, including the following modules:

• BMC Performance Manager Portal 2.9 (with PATROL 3.9.00)

2.9.10*

Provides a common web-based interface for managing and monitoring your IT infrastructure while monitoring business services.

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management 8.6.20

BMC ProactiveNet Core
BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Reporting

8.6.02

8.6.02 (no SP)

SP 1 (Core)

A real-time analytics solution that detects performance abnormalities in the IT environment, delivers early warning of degrading performance, and reduces time from issue detection to resolution. This early warning is delivered by Intelligent Events that result from analyzing and correlating data across the monitored IT infrastructure, speeding the ability to detect abnormal trends before end users and mission critical applications are impacted. It also provides the users with views, detailed graph displays, reports and other tools for diagnosing performance issues.

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management 8.6.20

BMC Transaction Management Application Response Time, either Infrastructure Edition or Service Level Edition

3.9.00

Enables you to manage the performance and reliability of your worldwide applications to measure site health based on end-user experience metrics, such as availability, accuracy, and performance.

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management 8.6.20

Integration for BMC Remedy Service Desk

8.6.02

Provides the integration from certain Service Assurance products to BMC Remedy IT Service Management.

BMC Service Impact Management (backwards compatibility testing)

7.4

NA

BMC Remedy Action Request System

7.6.04

SP 2

Enables the building of powerful business workflow applications which can automatically track anything that is important to the processes in your enterprise. Companies use AR System to track such diverse items as stock trades, benefits data, inventory assets, spare parts, and order fulfillment. A common use of AR System is to automate the internal help desk.

BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite 7.6.04

BMC Remedy IT Service Management:

• BMC Remedy Asset Management
• BMC Remedy Change Management
• BMC Remedy Service Desk, including:
  • BMC Remedy Incident Management
  • BMC Remedy Problem Management

7.6.04

SP 2

The BMC Remedy Asset Management application lets IT professionals track and manage enterprise CIs - and their changing relationships - throughout the entire CI lifecycle.

BMC Remedy Change Management provides IT organizations with the ability to manage changes by enabling them to assess impact, risk, and resource requirements, and then create plans and automate approval functions for implementing changes.

BMC Remedy Service Desk allows IT professionals to manage incidents, problem investigations, known errors, and solution database entries.

BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite 7.6.04

BMC Remedy Knowledge Management

7.6.04

SP 2

Allows users to author and search for solutions in a knowledge base. It includes a comprehensive editor with extensive editing tools and a robust search engine that allows users to search for solutions using natural language or Boolean searches.

BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite 7.6.04

BMC Service Request Management

7.6.04

SP 2

Allows IT to define offered services, publish those services in a service catalog, and automate the fulfillment of those services for their users.

BMC AppSight 7.8.00

Y

N

N

Y

Y

Y

NA

BMC BladeLogic Database Automation 8.1.02

N - agent only

Y

Y - agent
postgresql - manager

Y - agent
postgresql - manager

NA

NA

NA

Entuity Network Monitoring for BPPM 8.5.01

Y

Y

N - MySQL

N - MySQL

Y

Y

Y

BMC TrueSight End User Monitor 5.1.01

N - vApp

N - vApp

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

BMC ITBM 7.6.04 SP1

Y

Y

Y

Y

NA*

^{*BMC ITBM requires an Application Server, so JBoss is used for BSM Reference Stack 2.1}

Y

NA

Windows 2008 R2 (64-bit)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (64-bit)

MS-SQL 2008 Enterprise Edition SP 1 (64-bit)

Oracle Enterprise Edition 11g R1 (64-bit)

Tomcat 6.0.26 (64-bit)

Tomcat 6.0.26 (64-bit)

Apache 2.2 (32-bit) 

Apache 2.2 (64-bit)

BusinessObjects XI 3.1 SP3 or 4.0

BusinessObjects XI 3.1 SP 3 or 4.0 

JDK/JRE 1.6.0_20*

JDK/JRE 1.6.0_20*