Integration of provisioning and server management

The BMC Server Automation system integrates provisioning with BMC Server Automation server management functions to allow for provisioning higher layers of the server stack after the operating system is installed.

When you provision a server, you can also install an RSCD agent on the server, register it, and provide information about that server, so you can manage that server in the future. When you create a Provision Job to provision a server, you can also specify a Batch Job that runs after the agent is installed on the newly provisioned server. A Batch Job can run multiple jobs sequentially. In this way you can run jobs that perform additional configuration on the server, deploy all necessary files, and install required software.