The solution is stable. 

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The best feature of the solution is patch automation. The main features of the solution are compliance, which can be checked off in an automated way, and a report generated. We also have a dashboard where we can check and integrate two sets of automation with vulnerability management. This allows us to mitigate vulnerabilities through patching, deploying scripts, executing commands, and making changes to the registry entry.

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The solution's most valuable features are provisioning, compliance, patching, and integration.

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The ability to standardize patching and deployments across affiliates is a valuable function. I also like the ability to access server information and file systems directly through TSSA.

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Overall, the BMC TrueSight Server Automation product is very strong. It allows you to operate it through both the GUI and CLI (Command Line Interface). That's the beauty of the product.

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Server Automation's best feature is automated patching. It also helps us automate compliance and report generation. We can even integrate TrueSight Server Automation with a vulnerability management solution to remedy vulnerabilities by applying patches, deploying scripts, or changing registry entries. 

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Among the most valuable features is its flexibility and ability to work across multiple operating systems. Being able to execute some form of data collection and not have to worry about whether I'm working on a Linux box, or a Windows box, or the underlying OS, I can do these collections, get these results, and put them together in a uniform format which makes it easier to present back to management. That way we can track issues and have near real-time results; it takes time to collect. 

We're a very heavy user of the patching methodology. We use their CMDB as well. We have ties into that to provide data or attributes of each of the servers. And we have a fully automated patching process which has been absolutely phenomenal. Again, it's across operating systems, so we can patch Windows systems and Linux systems all in the same time in the same windows. It impacts different people, but it's really seamless regarding who's working with the system itself. That provides a huge benefit because it makes it easier for a post-application reboot stack. If we have an app that comes down during patching, we can shut down the web services, shut down the mid-tier, shut down the database, bring them all back in the appropriate order, and the operating system doesn't matter. We can handle it all in one application. So it's more efficient and easier to track in case there are issues.

Compliance is also huge. We're getting ready to take an even deeper step into it. BMC provides out-of-the-box templates for CIS compliance and PCI compliance. We've been looking hard, with our cybersecurity team, at the CIS compliance. These packages even provide remediation for some of these components. By tying it to Atrium Orchestrator, our workflow tool, we'll be able to have a closed loop where we identify a compliance issue, cut CRs, get them approved, and then be able to execute these CRs and more seamlessly fix these issues on the fly. We might schedule an execution of the job, which would then cut a CR. When that CR is approved, we can just go execute it on whatever scheduled approval time we have. The only person who's involved is the approver, defining when we can do it. We're really looking hard into integrations with other tools, especially our change management to be able to kick off automation and execute.

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The most valuable feature is its ability to remediate quickly and efficiently across a number of IT assets at the same time. It takes away manual efforts from the team to go out and fix those vulnerabilities through patching, conflict updates, etc.

While it's not my team which looks at the dashboards, SecOps users can manage vulnerabilities across the estate from a single pane of glass (from a single console). This allows the SecOps teams to then prioritize what is a more significant vulnerability than others.

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Awesome compliance, inventory, provisioning, patch, and deployment.

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The most important feature is the schedulings. We want to have them set up to handle as much automation as possible to reduce the resources involved with the project.

The documentation for this solution is good.

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We didn't use most of the advanced features. We just used it to implement patching where we needed to run scheduling and do automation jobs.

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The product's valuable feature is its ability to conduct patching for multiple servers simultaneously.

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• Deployment
• NSH script

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BMC Bladelogic Automation can be used across many OS platforms, providing us flexibility for deployments.

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- Versatile capabilities in deployment & releasing of software products. - Effective segregation of duties - Integration with build solutions View full review »

The ability to script and create BL packages to perform various functions. This makes automating our environment relatively easy to do.

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The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is agile. It gives us more speed to deliver services and applications, and we rely on security.

VDI integration is good.

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• It provides the possibility to manage any type of infrastructure object.
• It supports physical and virtual servers.
• Provides several types of packages and SOs.

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