Network Automation
BMC Configurations Automation for Networks
Business Challenge
Today’s network infrastructures typically include hundreds or thousands of disparate devices scattered across remote locations that may span several continents. What’s more, as a result of acquisitions and industry consolidation, similar devices from the same vendor may have substantially different management capabilities.
Your network operations staff has to keep up with a continuing barrage of configura tion change requests and vendor security advisories. At the same time, the staff has to ensure that all configuration changes are implemented in a controlled, error-free, and auditable manner. As if that weren’t enough, budgets and headcounts don’t grow at the same pace as the network infrastructure. That presents a significant challenge.
Business Need
- Automate network configuration change and compliance processes
- Reduce IT costs through automation of network configuration
- Improve business responsiveness with real-time change and auditing
Our Solution
BMC Configuration Automation for Networks is a network change and configuration management tool that eliminates repetitive, time-consuming, manual configuration processes. It simplifies release and change management, audits networkwide changes, and automates back-out procedures. It supports all core network devices – routers, switches, firewalls, wireless, access point, load balancers, etc. – regardless of the device vendor.
Key Features & Benefits
- Automatically generates the change scripts used to implement mass configuration updates, enforce policies, and perform non-disruptive rollbacks
- Simplifies access control list (ACL) management and eliminates security vulnerabilities during updates
- Provides real-time, policy-based compliance auditing
- Quickly identifies and quarantines suspect endpoints
- Maintains a trusted baseline configuration for one-click comparison and remediation
- Assesses the impact of changes by correlating reported service problems with prior configuration changes
- Includes out-of-the-box integrations for BMC Remedy and other third-party service desks
- Reduce operational costs by up to 80% through automation and one-click rollback
- Eliminate the number one cause of network outages – erroneous configuration changes
- Ensure continuous compliance with internal best practices and regulatory standards (HIPAA, NERC, PCI, SOX, etc.)
- Extend enterprise-wide change management initiatives to the network level
