BladeLogic Server Automation - Essentials Training Course and Workshop in Bangalore, Mysore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Kolkata

The BladeLogic Server Automation - Essentials training course is designed for BladeLogic Server Automation administrators and users responsible for implementing and managing client/server business applications, managing contention servers, and ensuring compliance with company or government policies related to Configuration Management.

By attending BladeLogic Server Automation - Essentials workshop, delegates will learn to:

Describe the features and basic functionality of BMC Server Automation
Navigate and utilize the BSA console folder hierarchy
Create and execute BSA Jobs
Perform deployment, compliance checking, and patching to managed servers
Use Properties for server management and deployment tasks
Describe how BSA can be used to manage virtualized environments
Audit multiple servers and applications to ensure compliance with company and/or government policies, using compliance content
Remediate compliance exceptions and audit remediation results
Use the BladeLogic Server Automation Console to create BL Packages to deploy content, configuration changes, and applications on remote servers
Describe SecOps, SecOps Workflow, BladeLogic Portal, and Threat Director
Use BladeLogic Server Automation to perform online Windows and Linux patching
Describe and use Live Reporting Dashboard
Describe the usefulness of the Health and Value Dashboards
Describe how BSA can be used to manage virtual environments

Knowledge of BMC BladeLogic Server Automation - Fundamentals

Administrators, Users & Operators

Getting Started with BMC BladeLogic Server Automation (BSA)

Explain the general tasks that BSA can perform
Describe the basic BSA architectural components
Review the basic building blocks of objects
Access related product documentation including how-to guides

Working with BSA Jobs

Describe the range of Job types available in BSA
Create a Job using the BSA Console
Save a Job to an appropriate Jobs folder
Execute a Job using the BSA Console
Execute a Job using the BSA Portal
View the execution status results of a Job using the BSA Console
View the execution status results of a Job using the BSA Portal
Apply appropriate permission settings to a Job

Working with Properties

Describe the Property Dictionary
Explain some of the uses of Server Properties
Make use of object Properties in the creation of Smart Groups
Add a Property to the Property Dictionary
Manually assign a value to a Property

Managing Server Objects

Use the BSA Console to manage Server Objects using the Live Browse view
Describe the functions of the Network Shell
Apply commands in a Network Shell session
Create Configuration File Objects and Extended Objects using the Configuration Object Dictionary

Basic Deployment

Describe basic file deployment
Create a File Deploy Job
Define a BLPackage
Walk through the steps of a BLPackage deployment
Use External Commands in a BLPackage deployment
Discuss the additional options available for File and BLPackage Jobs
Identify pros and cons of File Deploy and BLPackage Deploy Jobs
Apply parameterized deployment using a BLPackage local Property

Deploying Software

Describe basic file deployment
Adjust a standard software deployment
Apply stacked software deployments

Working with Components

Describe the purpose of a BSA Component
Create and configure a Component Template
Execute a Component Discovery Job
Apply permission controls to the resulting components
Configure the components for active use

Basic Compliance Using Audit and Snapshot Jobs

Describe the purpose of an Audit job
Create and execute a Live Server object Audit job
Describe some of the Audit options
Create and execute a Component-based Audit job
Describe the purpose of a Snapshot job
Create and execute a Snapshot-based Audit job
Remediate a non-compliant server object

Rules-based Compliance - Snapshot Jobs

Use the Component Template Rules Editor
Execute a Compliance job
Describe the Results view of a Compliance job
Apply an exception
Configure rules-based remediation
Describe the industry-standard BSA compliance content

SecOps

Describe SecOps
Explain SecOps Workflow
Describe BladeLogic Portal
Describe Threat Director

Windows and Linux Patch Management

Define patch management and the patching process
Identify internal patch repositories and BSA Patch Global Configuration
Create a Patch Catalog and identify Patch Catalog options
Define offline Patch Catalogs
Execute a Patch Analysis job using a Catalog

Portal

Describe the BladeLogic Portal, BSA Administrators, and BladeLogic Portal users
Access the BladeLogic Portal
Create a Deploy Operation and view Deploy Operation results

Health Dashboards

Describe the usefulness of the Health and Value Dashboards
Use the Health Dashboard

Overview of Live Reporting

List Live Reporting features
Describe the various Live Reporting Users and Roles
Explain how to access Live Reporting Dashboard
Describe BMC Live Reporting Elements
Describe the various types of reports available in the Live Reporting Dashboard

Working with Virtual Environments

Describe how BSA can be used to manage virtual environments
Describe the purpose of the virtual manager objects
Create a Virtual Guest Package
Apply a Virtual Guest job

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