Integrating with Cisco Data Center Services Node

This section contains topics that describe the integration between BMC Network Automation and Cisco Data Center Services Node:

BMC Network Automation supports the following features specific to management of the Cisco Data Center Services Node:

• Automated discovery and initial configuration of each Cisco Firewall Service Module and Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) module in a Cisco Data Center Services Node
• Out-of-the-box transparent and routed end-to-end VLAN design templates
• Out-of-the-box network path configuration when provisioning web, exchange, and SQL servers
• Central management of Cisco 6500, Cisco ACE, and Cisco Firewall Service Module

The following features extend to the rest of the data center:

• Integrating with BMC Server Automation Suite or UCS Manager
• Extending to full cloud management and ecosystem
• Managing network devices for multiple vendors from a single platform
• Auditing and enforcing compliance to configuration best practices
• Detecting, auditing, and reporting on all changes (who, what, where, when)
• Enabling users to perform network change and compliance tasks with business service context through its integration with BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
• Enabling users to track and approve network changes through BMC Remedy Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) Change Management system
• Allowing organizations to automatically open Incident tickets in BMC Remedy ITSM Incident Management system when network change events are detected
• Implementing a reliable snapshot and recovery process
• Proactively assessing and reporting service impacting changes
• Automation of configuration rollback, configuration updates, and standards enforcement by SmartMerge Technology
• Support for the change workflow process that subjects change requests to review and approval
• Automatically grouping devices for network change and configuration operations based on device attributes
• Enforcing a role-based user security model
• Supporting multi-tenancy using realms