Planning

Plan the deployment

If you are implementing provisioning with BMC Server Automation, review the Implementation-process-for-provisioning and Planning-for-provisioning topics.

If you are implementing compliance content, review the Implementation-process-for-compliance-content-analysis.

Review the topics in the Deployment-use-cases section to:

• Review information about high availability and disaster recovery as it applies to product components 
• Review key security considerations for BMC Server Automation

Plan for scaling the environment

Review the Sizing-and-scalability-considerations topic to review guidelines for sizing and scaling a BMC Server Automation Application Server. Note that the settings for some configuration parameters related to size and scale can affect Application Server performance.

Review system requirements

The System-requirements section provides information about:

• Supported platforms.

• The minimum hardware requirements and software requirements
• RSCD-agent-licenses
• The required BMC-Server-Automation-ports

Review information about permissions and authorizations

The Permissions section provides information about:

• How you can control user access through a combination of role-based and system object-based authorizations
• What system authorizations are available in BMC Server Automation
• What role-based access control (RBAC) permissions are required for patch management

Plan for security

The Security-planning  section provides overview information about the security capabilities of the product. These capabilities include:

• Impersonation-and-privilege-mapping, which describes the mechanisms to enable a user to assume an effective user identity and a set of user permissions on remote servers.
• Authorization, which discusses the process of granting a user access to resources or permissions to perform certain actions. BMC Server Automation supports authorization using a RBAC model and a set of very granular access control lists (ACLs).
• Session-layer-security, which discusses how BMC Server Automation uses TLS for session layer security across all communications legs.
• Authentication, which discusses how BMC Server Automation verifies the identity claimed by a system entity.

The capabilities you implement depend on your own security requirements and the BMC Server Automation system components that are communicating. For an explanation of how to implement all possible security capabilities, see Administering-security.

Review the internationalization and localization information for the product

The Language-information section provides information about internationalization and localization for the product, such as:

• International language sets, which identifies the international language sets BMC Server Automation is able to accept and display.
• Language-enabled platforms, which lists the international platforms on which BMC Server Automation can run.
• Localized languages, which lists the languages in which the BMC Server Automation interface is localized.