Third-party management systems

The topics in this section contain information about integrating BMC Network Automation with third-party network management systems.

Supported third-party management systems

BMC Network Automation supports integrations with the BMC Service Management and third-party network management systems listed in the following table:

Note

BMC Network Automation also supports the following integrations listed for BMC Remedy Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) and BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB). See BMC-Continuous-Compliance-for-Network-Automation-solution.

For information about how to install and use these integrations, see the respective documentation.

The system offers ease of integration with management systems through its URL-based API. The URL-based API enables third party management systems to launch various change reports and change requests, including the following:

  • Launch Change Summary Reports
  • Launch Discrepancy Reports
  • Launch Compliance Summary Reports
  • Launch Configuration Comparison Reports
  • Launch Device Inventory Reports
  • Submit a Change Request
  • Launch a Telnet/SSH Session
  • Approve/Reject a Change Request
  • View Job Summary Report for a Change Request

See Requirements-for-launching-reports-and-jobs-from-third-party-applications.

In addition, BMC Network Automation provides the following integration points for management systems:

  • Web services API: Allows external applications to manage network configuration changes enabling business service automation. See Understanding the Web Services Java API.
  • SNMP change notification: Policies enable users to fully customize reporting of change notifications to one or more management stations. See Managing-SNMP-manager-stations.
  • Email notifications: Email notifications are automatically sent to IT personnel. The notification can include an attached report such as a Change Summary, Compliance Summary, or Job Summary report. See Configuring-email-notification-for-jobs.
  • Import or export configuration files: The system streamlines engineering design workflow through integration with third-party network modeling systems. See Managing-import-and-export-tasks.

 

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