Opalis IP for BMC Atrium CMDB
Automated management of Relationships and Configuration Items.
CMDB is central to maintaining control over change and release procedures. Opalis Integration Server automates, integrates, and orchestrates IT processes, people, and applications. The Opalis Integration Pack for BMC Atrium CMDB extends the capabilities to manage configuration items and relationships.
Orchestrate provisioning of new Virtual Machines while keeping the CMDB up-to-date
Opalis Integration Server provides deep integration and orchestration of Virtualization tools from the leading vendors. By combing the Opalis Integration Pack for BMC Atrium CMDB, Opalis Integration Server can automate provisioning of new virtual machines, deployment of essential software, based on configuration items in the CMDB. Further, all information and relationships are updated automatically, keeping your CMDB current and relevant.
Deploy patches quickly and easily by combing CMDB with patch deployment tools
By using the Opalis Integration Pack for BMC Atrium CMDB with tools such as SMS, Opalis Integration Server is able to orchestrate end-to-end patch deployment scenarios. Driven by configuration items, policies built in Opalis Integration Server can take dynamic actions and responses to delivering patches to systems. Patches are done consistently every time and without human intervention.
Track incidents to unapproved changes
Unapproved changes count for a large percentage of incidents that occur within a data center. By using the Opalis Integration Pack for Atrium CMDB with system monitoring Integration Packs, Opalis Integration Server can diagnose if an incident is cause by an unapproved change and then rollback the system to previous known working state to resolve the incident.
Automation Policies
1. Match critical incidents to unapproved changes
Opalis Integration Server resolves incidents by correlating them to unapproved and changes and rolling back those changes to a known good state.
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Opalis Integration Server resolves incidents by correlating them to unapproved and changes and rolling back those changes to a known good state.
2. Streamline patch management
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Opalis Integration Server provides the fastest way to automatically patch a group of virtual machines in one process. By querying all approved patches, via configuration items in BMC Atrium CMDB, all virtual machines are patched consistently regardless of whether they are running or not. Finally, Opalis suppresses alerts from HP OpenView Operations while the patch process is being completed, thus preventing alert storms during the changes.
3. Keep CMDB up-to-date with automated change request fulfillment
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A new virtual machine is requested via BMC Remedy. During provisioning the CMDB is updated with all the information about the new server.
Opalis Policy objects for BMC Atrium CMDB 2
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