Data Center Operations
Automation solutions to manage the complete lifecycle of servers from initial provisioning to day-to-day management
CRITICAL
REQUIREMENTS |
BLADELOGIC
SOLUTIONS |
| Provisioning |
- Discover devices and the interdependent relationships between different devices and their respective applications
- Provision the OS and the full server stack directly or integrate with hardware-specific provisioning tools
- Enable easy hand-offs between different teams through rich configuration access controls
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| Build Compliance & Certification |
- Define specific policies or gold standards for how servers should be provisioned
- Quickly identify and repair misconfigured servers
- Rollback changes as appropriate
- Track configuration drift over time
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| Software Distribution |
- Deploy vendor software with built-in dependency checking to ensure software deployments are sequenced in the appropriate order
- Make configuration updates via a sophisticated packaging technology that provides the ability to deploy software as well as selectively undo complex changes
- Scan and patch servers across different OS platforms
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| Remote Administration |
- Provide both a command-line interface (CLI) and graphical user interface (GUI) that can be used by administrators across all Windows, UNIX, and Linux platforms
- Support 140+ of the most common shell commands
- Leverage and integrate with existing shells and scripts
- Grant permissions to specific configuration data based on a user’s role and privileges
- Log all user activity down to keystrokes on every server for rich audit trails
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