This topic contains information about the BMC Release Lifecycle Management 4.6 suite, which includes the following component products:
- BMC Release Process Management
- BMC Release Package and Deployment
- BMC BladeLogic Application Automation
The BMC Release Lifecycle Management suite of applications helps you to manage software release planning, coordination, application packaging, and application release automation. BMC Release Lifecycle Management addresses the challenges of the software release process by enabling all active participants, such as release managers, coordinators, deployers, and administrators, to perform their tasks in a coordinated fashion across multiple releases, environments, and teams.
The BMC Release Process Management product helps you to manage the entire release process for software. You can manage multiple software products and multiple releases irrespective of the frequency of releases. For more information, see BMC Release Process Management 4.6.
The BMC Release Package and Deployment product is an application deployment manager that enables you to abstract the requirements of an application and then deploy it to multiple environments automatically. For example, you can deploy an application to multiple test servers, run tests on the application, and, if the tests pass, then deploy the application to multiple environments, all through an automatic process. For more information, see BMC Release Package and Deployment 4.4.
The BMC Application Automation product helps you face the challenges of application release management with a range of features for automating application management through the BMC BladeLogic Server Automation product. For more information, see BMC BladeLogic Server Automation 8.6.
License entitlements
The entitlements that apply to licenses related to BMC BladeLogic Application Automation excludes the use of BMC BladeLogic agent for server compliance, remediation, configuration, patching, and provisioning tasks for the servers licensed. This product includes the use of the OS-based configuration elements (i.e., config files, registry setting, REDHat Package Manager) as part of application packaging, deployment, and configuration of internally built, proprietary, or custom-developed code.
You can download the components mentioned herein from the Electronic Product Distribution website. Use the same user name and password that you use to access the Customer Support website.
If you do not have a current license for the components you want, contact a BMC sales representative by calling 800 793 4262. If you cannot download the components, contact a sales representative and ask for a physical kit to be shipped to you.