Provisioning Infrastructure Management components with BMC Server  Automation

If you have integrated BMC Server Automation into your Infrastructure Management environment, you can create packages of the currently available components in the Infrastructure Management Central Monitoring Repository. Load the packages into BMC Server Automation, create deployment jobs in BMC Server Automation to deploy and install those packages to remote hosts. Then use the Central Monitoring Administration console to automatically configure the products after they are installed.

The provisioning process consists of the following tasks:

  1. Creating-packages-for-provisioning
  2. Creating-a-property-instance-in-BMC-Server-Automation
  3. Creating BMC Server Automation jobs to deploy Infrastructure Management component packages to remote hosts

Before you begin

Ensure that your environment is set up properly for the provisioning process as follows. For information, see Setting up the integration between BMC Server Automation and Infrastructure Management.

  • Ensure that BMC Server Automation Agent is installed and licensed on the computer that hosts the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server where the Central Monitoring Repository is installed, on all remote computers on which the product packages are installed and configured, and on the computer that hosts the BMC Server Automation Server.
  • Ensure that the Central Monitoring Repository and the BMC Central Monitoring Administration console are installed on the computer that hosts the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server. If you have a multiple server deployment, the repository and the console must be installed on each leaf server in your Infrastructure Management environment. See Installing.
  • Create a BMC Server Automation administrator account and assign it to the BLAdmins role.
  • Ensure that Web Services are configured on the computer that hosts the BMC Server Automation Server.
  • Use the pw blade test command to test the credentials that are used to access BMC Server Automation to ensure that the connection from Infrastructure Management is valid.
  • On Windows computers, ensure that command extensions are enabled.
     For information about command extensions, see the Microsoft Windows product documentation.

Related topic

Deploying files and applications using packages and depot objects in the BMC Server Automation online documentation.

 

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