User interface fundamentals

BMC Helix Automation Console, accessible from BMC Helix Portal, integrates with configured endpoint managers like TrueSight Server Automation and TrueSight Network Automation to identify, analyze, and remediate missing patches, vulnerabilities, and compliance violations in your environment. The BMC Helix Automation Console user interface displays the following pages:

Dashboard

• Patch Dashboard: This dashboard provides graphical information about missing patches on assets in your environment.
  
  The widgets on the dashboard show the following metrics:

  • Patch compliance
  • Patch remediation trend
  • Missing patches by stage
  • Impacted assets by risk score and Service Level Agreements
  • Top 10 missing patches
  • Top 10 services at risk
  • Top 10 risk owners
• Vulnerability Dashboard: This dashboard provides information about the vulnerabilities identified on the assets by the scanner connectors.
  
  The widgets on the dashboard show the following metrics:
  • Mapped and actionable vulnerabilities
  • Risk and SLA distribution by assets and vulnerabilities
  • Vulnerabilities by stage
  • Vulnerability remediation trends
  • Top 10 identified vulnerabilities
  • Top 10 services at risk
  • Top 10 risk owners
• Compliance Dashboard: This dashboard provides graphical information about the compliant or non-compliant assets in your environment.
  
  This dashboard displays the following metrics:
  • Compliance posture (percentage of compliant, non-compliant, and indeterminate assets)
  • Non-compliant assets by SLA, stage, and risk score
  • Top 10 compliance scan policies
  • Top 10 business services or applications with the maximum number of non-compliant assets and evaluations. 

Assets

The Managed Assets page displays the list of assets with missing patches.

The Scanned Assets page lists the assets that are generated in the vulnerability scans performed by scanner connectors.

The Discovered Assets page lists the assets discovered by integrating with BMC Discovery.

Risks

The Missing Patches page lists all missing patches and the impacted assets for each missing patch.

The Vulnerabilities page lists all the vulnerabilities found by the scanner connectors. 

The Compliance page lists all the compliance violations on the managed assets.

Operations

The Operations page displays a list of operations, which perform actions to install missing patches or remediate vulnerabilities on assets.

The Operation Templates page displays all operation templates created with predefined options that you can use to create similar types of operations.

Manage

The Manage Patch Policies page displays a list of patch policies, which scan the assets in your environment to identify missing patches.

The Import page displays a list of imported scan files.

On the Manage page, you can create exceptions for vulnerabilities. You can also create compliance policy scans to scan assets for non-compliant rules. 

Configuration

Administrators use the Configuration menu to perform the following configuration activities:

• Adding and updating connectors
  
• Adding catalogs
  
• Defining Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
  
• Enable integration with BMC Helix Intelligent Automation. 
  

Common BMC Helix Automation Console UI elements

Use this section to know more about the common user interface elements. 

• Click the help icon  to launch the context-sensitive help topic.
• Click User profile menu >  About to view the product name and version. 
• Click User profile menu > Activity Logs to view details of user activities in the Automation Console.
• Click Sign out to log out of the Automation Console. 

To switch the roles or security groups

Roles include those created in BMC Helix portal as well as the roles defined in the configured endpoint managers, for example, BLAdmins or ITManagers. Roles are used for both functional and data segregation.

Your current role is displayed in the top-right corner of the UI. If you are assigned multiple roles, you can switch between them to view data and perform actions in BMC Helix Automation Console according to the selected role. 

To switch roles, perform the following steps: 

1. On the top-right corner, click User profile menu and then select Switch Roles.
   The Switch Roles/Security Groups window displays all the roles you belong to, along with the remediation tools where each role is defined. If a role exists only in BMC Helix Portal and not in any endpoint manager, by default, the Remediation Tool column will display IA. If you create a role of the same name in any endpoint manager, the Remediation Tool column will display IA and the endpoint manager name. For example, if you created a BLAdmins role in TrueSight Server Automation (TSSA) and the same role in BMC Helix Portal, the role will be associated with both IA and TSSA as remediation tools. 
2. Select a role, and click Select. 
   You can view data according to the selected role.