BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management

BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 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. TrueSight Network Automation functions as the network automation module in the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management product. TrueSight Network Automation handles all container management, firewall and load balance management, and network resource management, including IP address pooling. This topic contains the following sections:

Integrating with BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management

TrueSight Network Automation 8.9.x integrates with the following BMC and non-BMC products to provide the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution:

Product	Version
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management	4.6.07 Patch 1 (version 8.9.04.001, 8.9.04.002) 4.6.07 (product version 8.9.04) 4.6.06 (product version 8.9.03) 4.6.04 (product version 8.9.01, 8.9.02) 4.6.03 (product version 8.9.00)
Nokia VitalQIP	8.1.2 (product version 8.9.03, 8.9.04) 7.3 (product version 8.9.01, 8.9.02)
Infoblox Grid Manager	6.8.13

For TrueSight Network Automation to integrate with BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, the Cloud Service Management (CSM) integration option must be enabled during installation, or the Virtual Data Center must be enabled manually. You can find additional information in the Installing section of the online technical documentation for BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management. These instructions include how to configure TrueSight Network Automation when operating with BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.

Note

If you are using third-party IPAM solutions such as Infoblox or VitalQIP, you need to download the supported version of BMC Atrium Orchestrator Content and install the corresponding adapter and module as mentioned on the Enabling IP address management page.

Supporting vendor-specific devices

TrueSight Network Automation is a multi-vendor solution that provides out-of-the-box support for routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, load balancers, and other devices, as shown in the following tables:

Supported SDN platforms

Supported firewalls

Supported load balancers

Supported switches and routers

Others

Vendor	Device	Supported models	OS
Cisco	6120 and 6140 Fabric Interconnects	N20-C6508	NX-OS 2.0(2q)
Cisco	VNMC Virtual Appliance	All models	VNMC 1.x, VNMC 2.0 (3f), VNMC (PNSC) 3.0

For more information about configuring BMC Network Automation to work with devices for specific vendors, see Configuring-vendor-specific-devices in the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management documentation.