Hp Server Automation; Baseline - HP BL685c - ProLiant - 4 GB RAM Introduction Manual

HP Server Automation

Server Automation software provides the depth and breadth of capabilities you need to manage day-
to-day IT operations across servers and applications. It is enterprise software that provides automation
capabilities for operating system and application provisioning, patching, configuration management,
audit and compliance, reporting, and a host of other IT operations. HP Server Automation has helped
customers address their security and compliance management, data center consolidation, and
virtualization initiatives while simultaneously improving their operational efficiencies and
responsiveness to change.
Server Automation supports a distributed architecture that enables global scalability. It can manage
tens of thousands of servers in different subnets in data centers around the world.
Server Automation manages servers running Windows, Linux, VMware, and various UNIX operating
systems, including HP-UX 11i, across hardware from a multitude of vendors. Its main features when
managing a BladeSystem environment are automatic baselining of the hardware and software
configurations, policy-based provisioning, and application-level auditing and remediation.
Figure 2: HP Server Automation
Promote-to- Promote-to-
production production
workflow workflow
End-to-end End-to-end
provisioning provisioning
workflow workflow

Baseline

Baseline Baseline Baseline
IT IT
Teams Teams
• Servers • Servers • Servers • Servers
• Software • Software • Software • Software
Applications (full Applications (full Applications (full Applications (full
stack OS to app) stack OS to app) stack OS to app) stack OS to app)
• Agent Deployment • Agent Deployment • Agent Deployment • Agent Deployment
• Cross-tier discovery • Cross-tier discovery • Cross-tier discovery • Cross-tier discovery
of networks, of networks, of networks, of networks,
storage and storage and storage and storage and
application application application application
dependencies dependencies dependencies dependencies
Baseline
Server Automation enables your IT staff to bring the entire server environment under management
quickly and gain unprecedented visibility into servers and operations. After you bring servers under
management through an automated process, Server Automation provides a high degree of flexibility
for managing and reporting server and application operations. The server explorer facilitates easy
browsing of operating systems, patches, and applications across a heterogeneous group of servers.
The global shell and Windows PowerShell interfaces let you run automation scripts easily and with
enhanced security features across multiple servers at once. All administrator actions are stored and
digitally signed in a central data repository for performing compliance and IT reporting. With a
record of all changes and real-time server and business application views, Server Automation
provides deep visibility and increased control for your application environment.
Process Automation Process Automation
Drag-n-Drop Drag-n-Drop
Workflow Builder, Workflow Builder,
Execution Execution
OOB integrations OOB integrations
Server Lifecycle Automation Server Lifecycle Automation Server Lifecycle Automation
Change & Change & Change & Change &
Configure Configure Configure Configure
• Configuration • Configuration • Configuration • Configuration
management management management management
• Patch Management • Patch Management • Patch Management • Patch Management
(OS, softw are) (OS, softw are) (OS, softw are) (OS, softw are)
• Virtual machine • Virtual machine • Virtual machine • Virtual machine
config. Mgmt config. Mgmt config. Mgmt config. Mgmt
• Global remote • Global remote • Global remote • Global remote
access access access access
• Script execution • Script execution • Script execution • Script execution
Automation Platform Automation Platform Automation Platform
Scalable Scalable Scalable Global Deployment Architecture Global Deployment Architecture Global Deployment Architecture
Flexible Flexible
Audit Trails & Audit Trails &
Reports Reports
Modes Modes
Upgrade & Upgrade & Upgrade & Upgrade &
Compliance Compliance Compliance Compliance
Provision Provision Provision Provision
• Policy based audits • Policy based audits • Policy based audits • Policy based audits • Software • Software • Software • Software
distribution distribution distribution distribution
• Remediation • Remediation • Remediation • Remediation
• Bare Metal • Bare Metal • Bare Metal • Bare Metal
• Actionable search • Actionable search • Actionable search • Actionable search
provi s ioning provi s ioning provi s ioning provi s ioning
• Actionable reports • Actionable reports • Actionable reports • Actionable reports
• Software • Software • Software • Software
• Cross-tier • Cross-tier • Cross-tier • Cross-tier deployment deployment deployment deployment
compliance views compliance views compliance views compliance views
• Virtual machine • Virtual machine • Virtual machine • Virtual machine
provi s ioning provi s ioning provi s ioning provi s ioning
• Subscription service • Subscription service • Subscription service • Subscription service
for up-to-date for up-to-date for up-to-date for up-to-date
• Application • Application • Application • Application
compliance audits compliance audits compliance audits compliance audits
configuration configuration configuration configuration
Secure Secure Secure Extensible Extensible Extensible
IT change IT change
process process
workflow workflow
IT IT
incident/problem incident/problem
process workflow process workflow
IT IT
Systems Systems
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