Getting started with automatically deploying monitoring agents

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management

8.5

BMC ProactiveNet Getting Started Guide

BMC BladeLogic Server Automation

8.1

BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Installation Guide

Step 1. Install an agent on the BMC ProactiveNet Server

BMC BladeLogic Server Automation

Install an RSCD agent on the BMC ProactiveNet Server, and then license the agent.

For Windows servers, see "Installing RSCD agents" in the BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Installation Guide.

For UNIX servers, see "Installing the RSCD agent only" in the BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Installation Guide.

Step 2. Create a user account

BMC BladeLogic Server Automation

Using RBAC Manager in BMC BladeLogic Server Automation, create a user that is dedicated to the purpose of interacting with the ProactiveNet Server. At minimum, this user is granted authorizations to perform all actions in BMC BladeLogic Server Automation that this use case requires. Typically you can accomplish this by assigning the user to the BLAdmins role, but you may want to use another role for this purpose. Assign the user to that role and and no other role.

The role to which this user is assigned should have the following minimum authorizations:

BLPackage.Create
BLPackage.Read
CustomSoftware.Create
CustomSoftware.Read
DepotFolder.Create
DepotFolder.Read
DepotFolder.Write
DeployJob.Create
DeployJob.Execute
Server.Deploy
Server.Read
Server.Modify

In addition, you must grant authorizations to each of the objects you are modifying in BMC BladeLogic Server Automation. To accomplish this, you must assign the following permissions:

Server.Deploy
Server.Modify
Server.Read

For more information, see "Access management" in the BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Users Guide.

Step 3. Enable Web Services

BMC BladeLogic Server Automation

Using the blasadmin utility, enable Web Services on the BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Application Server.

For more information, see "To enable Web Services on the BMC BladeLogic Application Server" in the BMC ProactiveNet User Guide.

Step 4. Set up credentials on the BMC ProactiveNet Server

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management

Using the BMC ProactiveNet Server, set up credentials on the UDDI registry for accessing BMC BladeLogic Server Automation from BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management.

For more information, see one of the following:

• "To set up credentials with the UDDI registry on the BMC ProactiveNet Server for accessing BMC BladeLogic from BMC ProactiveNet" in the BMC ProactiveNet User Guide
• "To set up credentials without the UDDI registry on the BMC ProactiveNet Server for accessing BMC BladeLogic from BMC ProactiveNet" in the BMC ProactiveNet User Guide
  

Optional Step 5. Install BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management content on the BMC BladeLogic Application Server

BMC BladeLogic Server Automation

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management provides a content installer that you can use to download predefined component templates, Component Discovery Jobs, and Snapshot Job. The jobs can be edited and run on target servers where you want to capture configuration change activity for Solaris, Apache web servers on Solaris, and WebLogic application servers on Solaris.

See "Installing the BMC ProactiveNet content" in the BMC ProactiveNet User Guide.