8.5.00 enhancements

Separate installation and configuration

With this release, the configuration process is independent of the installation process. The installation process only deploys the product binaries. You can configure the product later by using the 

BMC Decision Support for Server Automation

 Console.

Schema and linked server creation by installer

You no longer need to create Oracle and SQL Server schemas and linked servers. The configuration process creates them for you.

Separate bundling of Cognos installer

With this release, the Cognos installer is bundled separately from the product installer. You must download the Cognos installer separately from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution (EPD) website.

When you upgrade to a service pack in the future, you do not need to download and install Cognos again. You will save bandwidth and time.

Compliance

Compliance Rule Result

Rule Result String Overflow

Compliance Rule Result/Rule Result String Overflow

Inventory

Server

Staging Directory

Server/Staging Directory

RBAC

Role

Authorization Method

Role/Authorization Method

User

Last Active Date

Role/User/Last Active Date

ACL Policy

ACL Policy Name

ACL Policy/ACL Policy Name

ACL Policy Description

ACL Policy/ACL Policy Description

Date Created

ACL Policy/Date Created

Date Modified

ACL Policy/Date Modified

Created User Name

ACL Policy/Created User Name

Modified User Name

ACL Policy/Modified User Name

ACL Policy Deleted

ACL Policy/ACL Policy Deleted

BL Package and NSH Script

Object Type

Object/BL Package and NSH Script/Object Type

Object Name

Object/BL Package and NSH Script/Object Type

Object Description

Object/BL Package and NSH Script/Object Description

Object Created Date

Object/BL Package and NSH Script/Object Created Date

Object Modified Date

Object/BL Package and NSH Script/Object Modified Date

Object Deleted

Object/BL Package and NSH Script/Object Deleted

Custom Command

Command

Object/Custom Command/Command

Command Display Name

Object/Custom Command/Command Display Name

Command Created Date

Object/Custom Command/Command Created Date

Command Modified Date

Object/Custom Command/Command Modified Date

Command Deleted

Object/Custom Command/Command Deleted

Config File

Config File Name

Object/Custom Command/Config File Name

Object

Authorization Method

Object/Authorization Method

Audit Trail

Site Name

Audit Trail/Site Name

User Name

Audit Trail/User Name

Role Name

Audit Trail/Role Name

RBAC Filters

Policy is not deleted

RBAC Filters/Policy is not deleted

Patch

Patch Information

Patch Smart Group Name

Patch Overview/Patch Information/Patch Smart Group Name

Patch Smart Group

Patch Overview/Patch Information/Patch Smart Group

Catalog Update Status

Patch Overview/Patch Information/Catalog Update Information/Catalog Update Status

Catalog Update Job Run Start Time

Patch Overview/Patch Information/Catalog Update Information/Catalog Update Job Run Start Time

Catalog Update Execution Time (secs)

Patch Overview/Patch Information/Catalog Update Information/Catalog Update Execution Time (secs)

Installed Server Count

Patch Overview/Patch Information/Installed Server Count

Windows Bulletin

Bulletin ID

Patch Overview/Patch Details/Windows Bulletin/Bulletin ID

Patch Type ID

Patch Overview/Patch Details/Windows Bulletin/Patch Type ID

Impact

Patch Overview/Patch Details/Windows Bulletin/Impact

Impact Description

Patch Overview/Patch Details/Windows Bulletin/Impact Description

Windows HotFix

Patch Type ID

Patch Overview/Patch Details/Windows HotFix/Patch Type ID

Superseded By

Patch Overview/Patch Details/Windows HotFix/Superseded By

Superseded By Score

Patch Overview/Patch Details/Windows HotFix/Superseded By Score

Missing Patch Details

Is Missing

Missing Patch Details/Is Missing

Is Installed

Missing Patch Details/Is Installed

Patch Status

Missing Patch Details/Patch Status

Patch Server

Server Group Name

Patch/Patch Server/Server Group Name

Server Smart Group Name

Patch/Patch Server/Server Smart Group Name

Patch Filters

Patch Job Latest Run

Patch Filters/Patch Job Latest Run

Profile

Authorization Description

Authorization Display Name

Authorization Type

Authorization Method

Site Name

Profile Authorization

Role

System Role

Compliance Policy Status

Provides a graphical view of the following information for a given policy:

• Policy Compliance Status
• Server Compliance Distribution
• Rule Compliance Distribution

 For more information about this report, see Built-in-Compliance-reports.

Job Activity Dashboard

Provides a graphical view of the following information for a single job type (or all job types) for a selected time interval:

• Number of jobs runs executing daily in the selected time interval
• Number of jobs runs executed in the selected time interval

Also, this report provides a tabular view of the following information for a single job type (or all job types) for a selected time interval:

• Number of jobs
• Number of job runs
• Average number of job runs per job
• Number of servers on which the jobs were run
• Average number of servers per job run
• Total time taken to execute (seconds) the jobs
• Average time to execute per job run (seconds)
• Shortest running job time (seconds)
• Longest running job time (seconds)
• Successful job runs
• Number of users running the job

For more information about this report, see Built-in-Job-Activity-reports.

Deploy Job Details By Server

Provides details about all Deploy Jobs executed on a server, such as Deploy job run start time, start and end time for the Deploy Job server phase, and server run status of the Deploy Job

Patch Summary

Provides a summarized view of all servers for a given patch for a given patch analysis policy.

Patch Details

Shows detailed information about each patch that is installed or missing on a server for a given patch type. Information is grouped by the patch name.

Patch Details By Server

Shows the latest status of patches on a server irrespective of the Patching job runs and the patch analysis policies; also shows details of the patches on a server that belong to a patch catalog. Information is grouped by server name.

Patch Catalog Details

Lists the information for a selected patch catalog that belongs to a patch catalog group. Information is grouped by patch type.

Job Activity   

Job Details

This report includes a new prompt, Show only latest run data, which enables you to view data about only the latest job runs of a job along with the data of all job runs.

Job Run Details

This report includes a new prompt, Show only latest run data, which enables you to view data about only the latest job runs with the data of all job runs of particular job type.

Deploy Job Summary

This report includes a new prompt, Show only latest run data, which enables you to view summarized data about only the latest job runs with the data of all job runs of a Deploy Job. Also, this report now includes the information about phases of a Deploy job, such as start and end time for a phase.

Deploy Job Details

This report includes a new prompt, Show only latest run data, which enables you to view detailed data about only the latest job runs with the data of all job runs of a Deploy Job. Also, this report now includes the information about phases of a Deploy job, such as start and end time for a phase on a server.

Compliance

Compliance Summary by Policy

This report now includes information about compliance rules, such as number of total rules checked, number of compliant and noncompliant rules, and percentage of rule compliance.

Patch      

Patch Analysis Trend By Policy

This report now includes information about the patch compliance and average missing patches per scanned server. For more details, see Built-in-Patch-reports.

Patch Analysis Policy Summary

This report now provides additional information about the patch catalog for a patch analysis policy (same as Patching Job), number of installed and missing patches on the scanned servers, and percentage patch compliance of policies.

For more details, see Built-in-Patch-reports.

Patch Trend By Server

This report now includes information about the percentage patch compliance of the server against a policy for a selected time interval.

For more details, see Built-in-Patch-reports.

Patch Summary By Server

This report now provides a summarized view of the installed, missing, and total patch count and patch compliance of a server against a policy for a selected time interval.

Patch Repository Summary

This report is no longer included in the Patch domain. You can derive the information available in this report from either the Patch Details report or Patch Details By Server report.

Missing Patch Summary

This report is no longer included in the Patch domain. You can derive the information available in this report from the Patch Summary report.

Missing Patch Details

This report is no longer included in the Patch domain. You can derive the information available in this report from the Patch Details report.

RBAC

 User Summary

This report includes the following updates:

• The No. of Roles and Role Name columns are now drill-through columns. Drill-through on these columns leads to the Role Authorization Summary report.
• The User Roles prompt has been renamed to User Name.

Role Authorization Summary

This report includes the following updates:

• Provides details about the authorizations assigned to a role: the number of servers, jobs, templates, groups, BLPackages, commands, and Config files that the role is authorized to view.
• The Server Count, Job Count, Template Count, Group Count, Command Count, and Config File Count columns are now drill-through columns. Drill-through on these columns leads to the Object Authorization report.

 Object Authorization

This report provides object level authorizations for the following additional object types:

• Custom Command
• Config File
• BL Package and NSH Script

Note: The object level authorization is no longer available for ACL templates.

None

Server Activity report

This report now provides additional information about the BMC Server Automation deployment activities that occurred on a selected server during a selected time interval.

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Database Details. Then, in the Site Details section, click the Add Site link.

For more information, see Adding-sites.

export content

Available in IBM Cognos Administration

For details, see the IBM Cognos Administration and Security Guide at PDFs.

export reportdef

Available in IBM Cognos Administration

For details, see the IBM Cognos Administration and Security Guide at PDFs.

export report

Available in IBM Cognos Administration

For details, see the IBM Cognos Administration and Security Guide at PDFs.

gencred

BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console logon screen

get blcoredb

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Database Details.

get emailconfig

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Other Details.

get etldb

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Database Details.

get portalcontentstore

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Database Details.

get warehouse

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Database Details.

import content

Available in IBM Cognos Administration

For details, see the IBM Cognos Administration and Security Guide at PDFs.

import reportdef

Available in IBM Cognos Administration

For details, see the IBM Cognos Administration and Security Guide at PDFs.

list sites

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Database Details.

show site

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Database Details.

set context

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Database Details. Then, in the Database Details section, click the Add Site link.

set dbpasswords

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Database Details. Then, click the Change Password link.

set dbinfo

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Database Details. Then, use one of the following methods:

• Click the Reconfigure link. Set details of the new database server by using the postinstallation reconfiguration wizard.
• Click the Modify button next to the database section that you want to modify.

set etldb

In the 

BMC Decision Support for Server Automation

 Console, click Configuration > Database Details. Then, click the Modify button next to the ETL Master Repository Details section or the ETL Work Repository Details section for which you want to modify the details.

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Other Details. Then, in the Email Details section, click the Modify button. Modify the email server details and click the Update button.

For more information, see the Modify Email Server Details page.

set portalcontentstore

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Database Details. Then, click the Modify button in the Portal Database row. Modify the portal database details and click the Update button.

For more information, see Managing-the-portal-database

set site

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Database Details. Then, click the Modify button next to the site that you want to modify. Modify the site details and click the Modify Site button.

For more information, see Managing-sites-and-the-reports-data-warehouse.

set warehouse
 

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click the Configuration > Database Details. Then, click the Modify button in the Warehouse Database row. Set details of the reports data warehouse.

For more information, see Managing-sites-and-the-reports-data-warehouse.

In the BMC Decision Support for Server Automation Console, click Configuration > Other Details. Then, in the Apache Web Server Details section, click the Modify button. Modify the web server details and click the Update button.

For more information, see the Modify Web Server Details page.

In the 

BMC Decision Support for Server Automation

 Console, click Configuration > Other Details. The Report Server Details section shows the product version.

Cognos

10.2

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)

11g