FAQ

BSM Interoperability provides validated workflows based on use cases that span multiple BMC products to help customers, BMC Partners, and BMC Professional Services successfully install the listed solution offerings. BSM Interoperability provides a certified path that has been tested and validated, and only the environment that has been tested and certified by BMC is documented.

The BSM Reference Stack promotes consistency and standardization for BMC suites and solutions via two sets of components:

• The infrastructure stack, composed of third-party components (OS, middleware, databases)
• The application stack, composed of BSM products

All suite and solution development, validation, and deployment recommendations are based on the BSM Reference Stack.

The compatibility matrix represents the list of products and versions that have been verified as interoperable in each release of BSM Interoperability.

A service pack (SP) release, such as BSM Interoperability 8.5.1 SP2, represents an interim release that captures all the individual service packs that each product releases and is included in an update of the compatibility matrix.

The incremental BSM Interoperability releases capture the coexistence and compatibility of the progressively newer versions of the products (major and minor releases or service packs). The compatibility matrix captures products across ESM and validates the coexistence of these products and solutions during that particular release cycle. BSM Interoperability does not run any backward-compatibility tests across these cycles. However, the product and solution teams run these tests in their respective test environments and document backward-compatibility in their product- or solution-level documentation.