Configuring BMC Server Automation after you deploy BMC RDS

After you have installed the BMC Compact RDS solution, use the following procedures to configure BMC Server Automation as part of the overall configuration process.

• • To review or create an authentication profile (BMC Small RDS)
  • To review or create an authentication profile (BMC Compact RDS)
  • To create a template in the vCenter server
  • To review BMC Server Automation content and compliance content

To review or create an authentication profile (BMC Small RDS)

1. To start the BMC Server Automation application console, navigate to the following location: 
   /opt/bmc/bladelogic/CM/rcp/bsaclient.sh
2. Run the script. 

To review or create an authentication profile (BMC Compact RDS)

1. To start the BMC Server Automation application console, navigate to the following location:
   /u01/bmc/bladelogic/CM/rcp/bsaclient.sh
2. Run the script. 
3. In the logon window, click Options.
   The window expands to show additional options in a tabbed format.
4. Click the Authentication Profiles tab, shown in the following figure:
   

5. Select the profile in the profiles list, and then verify the existing authentication profile details.

   Note

   All  products are installed at /u01/bmc.

    

Otherwise, create a profile if you are opening the BMC Server Automation Console from a jump box.

For more information about authentication profiles, see the following topics: 

•  Authentication profiles
• Setting up an authentication profile

To create a template in the vCenter server

1. From the BMC Compact RDS host or from the CLM-BSA host (Small RDS), verify that the vCenter and any templates to be provisioned have been updated with the latest RSCD agent and that the RSCD agent is licensed.
   Use the 8.5.00.416 version of the RSCD agent. For more information, see the BMC Server Automation documentation, for example, Installing-the-Windows-agent-on-the-vCenter-server.

1. Ensure that no antivirus software is installed on templates that are created for provisioning. 

2. Shut down the VM that you are using as your template. 

   Warning

   Do not power off the VM from the vCenter console. Unexpected results can occur if you power off instead of shutting down.

    

3. Right-click the VM and select Template > Convert to Template.

To review BMC Server Automation content and compliance content

BMC Compact and Small RDS include special bsa-content and compliance-content packages for BMC Server Automation.

1. Log on to the BMC Server Automation console.
2. Verify that the folder structures shown in the following figures are present.

Component Templates folder structure



Depot folder structure

 

Jobs folder structure

 

Servers folder structure

 

For more information about bl-content and Compliance Content, see the following topics in the BMC Server Automation documentation:

• Compliance Content component templates
• Component Template - General
• Working with components and component templates