Getting started

The TrueSight Server Automation product is a comprehensive system for the initial provisioning and ongoing automated management of data center servers. Using this system, administrators can provision operating systems onto servers and then specify how the server should be configured. TrueSight Server Automation lets administrators manage servers with a consistent user experience, regardless of whether the servers are physical or virtual.

Warning

BMC BladeLogic Rapid Deployment Stack for Servers (BladeLogic RDS) is no longer supported.

Tip

BMC Education Services provide Foundation courses covering the topics discussed in the walkthroughs available in this section. The education classes discuss when and why to make use of various features as well as the “how-to”. If you are interested in looking deeper into these topics, we recommend that you check out the education offerings at training.

The following topics are designed to enable you to quickly leverage the many automation capabilities of TrueSight Server Automation.

Installing the product with the unified product installer

Understanding-nodes

Setting-up-the-Default-Application-Server-node

Adding-additional-Application-Servers

Walkthrough-Installing-on-Windows-using-the-unified-installer

Getting started with automation

Why-automate

How-does-TrueSight-Server-Automation-work

Walkthrough-Adding-a-Windows-managed-server

Walkthrough-Inventory-using-Live-Browse

Walkthrough-Audit-a-single-configuration-item

Walkthrough-Build-a-simple-BLPackage-to-distribute-content

Walkthrough-Dynamically-organizing-assets-with-smart-groups

Getting started with provisioning

What-is-Provisioning

Walkthrough-Provisioning-Microsoft-Windows-2012-on-a-bare-metal-machine

Walkthrough-Provisioning-Linux

Walkthrough-Provisioning-a-Linux-VM-on-VMware

Walkthrough-Provisioning-a-VM-from-a-Hyper-V-Generation-2-template

Getting started with configuration management

What-is-Configuration-Management

Walkthrough-Changing-the-root-password-for-a-set-of-systems

Walkthrough-Packaging-applications-with-BLpackages

Walkthrough-Performing-post-install-activities-after-provisioning

Walkthrough-Provisioning-a-LAMP-stack-using-patch-catalogs

Getting started with patch management

What-is-patching

Walkthrough-Restricting-permissions-for-a-patching-administrator

Walkthrough-Setting-up-and-managing-an-online-patch-catalog-for-Windows

Walkthrough-Setting-up-and-managing-an-online-patch-catalog-for-Linux

Walkthrough-Setting-up-and-managing-an-offline-patch-catalog-for-Windows

Walkthrough-Setting-up-and-managing-an-offline-patch-catalog-for-Linux

Walkthrough-Basic-Microsoft-Windows-patch-analysis

Walkthrough-Basic-Red-Hat-Linux-patch-analysis

Walkthrough-Basic-patch-remediation

Walkthrough-Identifying-potential-patching-and-deployment-problems

Getting started with compliance

What-is-compliance

Walkthrough-Restricting-permissions-for-a-Compliance-officer

Walkthrough-Loading-compliance-content

Walkthrough-Creating-a-compliance-template

Walkthrough-Compliance-audit-based-on-a-policy

Walkthrough-Reviewing-the-results-of-a-compliance-check

Walkthrough-Remediating-a-compliance-failure

Walkthrough-Creating-exceptions-for-compliance-rules

Overview of the product

Key-concepts

User-goals-and-features

TrueSight-Server-Automation-components

TrueSight-Server-Automation-architecture

Health-and-Value-Dashboards

Tips

The TrueSight Server Automation quick start page introduces you to the main use cases of TrueSight Server Automation and allows you to execute them from a centralized UI. You can use the option in the Configuration menu to launch the quick start page manually when required.

What's the Automation Academy?

The Automation Academy introduces you to a key BladeLogic use case and then provides several step by step, cookbook-style examples that walk you through a specific aspect of that use case. The initial release of Automation Academy included topics on automation concepts, provisioning, and configuration management.

Getting started

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