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Operations Manager
Overview
BladeLogic Operations Manager is a leading platform for the management, control and enforcement of configuration changes in the data center. BladeLogic customers have lowered their operating costs for managing servers and critical business applications by automating key data center functions including:
- Discovery & Inventory Management
- Patch Management
- Compliance Measurement, Enforcement, & Reporting
- Server & Application Configuration Changes
- Ad-Hoc Tasks & Remote Administration
- Server & Application Provisioning
BladeLogic customers rely on BladeLogic Operations Manager to manage the entire lifecycle (Inventory, Provisioning, Configuration and Change Control, and Continual Compliance) for servers and applications in a data center. BladeLogic Operations Manager also supports a comprehensive Configuration Management Database (CMDB) that allows users to store and manage configuration attributes for servers and applications. This enables IT organizations to implement a policy-based automation solution for managing their data centers while ensuring highest uptime for the underlying business critical services.
Proven Return on Investment
Using BladeLogic Operations Manager, customers across various industries have realized immediate value from its implementation. As the underlying driver for orchestration, provisioning, configuration and change control, and compliance, BladeLogic Operations Manager has enabled customers to save time and cut costs. A representation of savings include:
| BEFORE BladeLogic |
AFTER BladeLogic |
TIME Saved |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial Server Provisioning | |||
| Install operating system & OS configurations | 240 hours | 40 hours | 83.3% |
| Deploy middleware and applications | 8.3 hours | 4 minutes | 99.2% |
| Deploy custom code and content | 8.3 hours | 5 minutes | 99.0% |
| Ongoing & Planned Change | |||
| Patch Window servers | 14.3 days | 14 hours | 83.0% |
| Update custom code on multi-tier Web application | 8.3 hours | 5 minutes | 99.0% |
| Rotate passwords | 8.3 hours | 1 minutes | 99.8% |
| Ad-hoc & Unplanned Change | |||
| De-provision a user from all servers | 16 hours | 6 minutes | 99.4% |
| OS configuration updates | 8.3 hours | 3 minutes | 99.4% |
| Check license utilization | 16 hours | 1 minutes | 99.9% |
| Managing Consistency & Compliance | |||
| Inventory software, patches, configurations | 10.3 hours | 4 minutes | 99.3% |
| Audit servers against a security policy | 8.3 hours | 4 minutes | 99.2% |
| Remediate non-compliant servers | 16.6 hours | 4 minutes | 99.6% |
| TIME SAVINGS | 97.1% | ||