April 2012 (BBCA 8.2.01 information)

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The CM-UG call is normally the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 12 noon central time.
The CM-UG calendar is also located here > http://calendar.cm-ug.com

Upcoming Events
May User Group Call
Wednesday May 16, 2012 - 1PM Eastern / Noon Central
Monthly Feature: BBCA RoadMap - Demo of Breakfix/Baremetal using M42

June User Group Call
Wednesday June 20, 2012 - 1PM Eastern / Noon Central
Monthly Feature: TBD


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Potential Meeting Topics/Demos
Open to presentations from CM-UG Members and Vendors.

– Member Presentations:
– Stopping channel shopping (Josh L) Suggest a topic:
– Custom inventory scanning (Jason M)
– Custom Reporting interfaces
– Custom ARS interfaces If you have a topic you
would like to discuss as a
– Vendor Presentations:
monthly feature please
– Marimba 8.2 Roadmap (BMC)
– AdminStudio Info (Flexera) send an email to
– Marimba/Matrix42 VDI Solutions BBCA@CM-UG.com
– BMC Product Roadmaps


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April 2012 notes

8.00 - limited support in June 2012, for one year min - June 2013.
8.2.01 - GA expected May 17th, 2012


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BBCA 8.2.01

BMC Provided details on the new features and enhancements we can expect in 8.2.01:

› Shavlik HF7b kit integration
› Ignore segments option
› Plug-in refresh cycle config options
› Power reporting/dollar cost savings graphs/details
› ISM improvements
› Full scan from command line
› 8.2.01 “Wake Up” feature in Tuner Admin
› Tries Vpro if machine is vpro capable
› Then tries magic packet, finds a peer in same subnet which forwards to target machines.
› Vpro - can be used as a seed tuner to wake up neighbors.
› If VPRO is not enabled - uses system header
› Schema Mods for 8.2.01
› MS Sql customers must go to enterprise
› DB Change
› No LDAP change


BMC Client Automation

What’s new in 8.2.01

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understanding that without the prior written consent of BMC, customers
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other than for which BMC intended.

All of the future product plans and releases described herein are at the
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Power Management

Goals

- Centralized, scalable, policy-driven power management solution to conserve
power

- Report realized cost savings and reduction on carbon dioxide emissions
related to the operation of Laptops and PCs

- Provide IT administrator’s the ability to manage and maintain distribution
while the machine was powered off


Power Management

Create profiles that best suite your environments

• Defines rules and templates defining when client systems are
placed into low power modes for power savings
• Leverages windows power management


Power Management

Using Policy manager deploy the profiles to applicable groups


Power Management

Gathering Data

• High power use, low power, off
• By site


Power Management

Configure power usage for models


Power Management

Configure power cost and carbon emission per site


Power Management

Custom reports that display usage by site


Power Management

Power usage by site


Power Management

CO2 Emissions by site


Power Management


Power Management

You can use the policy manager to trigger wake-up for before the schedule is kicked
off


Power Management

You can use the Tuner Administrator to trigger wake-up for single or multiple targets


Custom ISM

Why
- Improve SLA by providing a early detection
- Reduce help desk cost discovering failure
- Prevent failure by monitoring warning

How
- Extend monitoring features provided by current ISM module
- Provide a single console to monitor events external to the BBCA components


Enhancements

Enhance ISM console to display customized status
Modify database schema to support additional custom data
Enhance scanner to receive custom data values
Enhance logging service to collect customized data
Enhance UI to allow users to define custom rules for status


Custom ISM Workflow

Extend ISM tables to prepare database to hold custom data
Write custom stat scanner
- Custom scanner will contain logic necessary to capture ISM stats
Associate custom scanner with ISM component
- ISM will invoke the associated custom scanner
Define component health
- Add attribute to monitor
- Define type and conditions
- Define formula
View status in graphs
Define email alerts


Component Interaction

ISM Reports ISM Console

ISM
Logging service collects and Database
forwards stats to invdb

Logging Service Plugin

ISM ISM ISM ISM
Client Transmitter Proxy CMS


Patch Management

Shavlik Kit XML file HF7b integration
The new Shavlik Kit XML file HF7b has been integrated into the
product.
Enhancement filtering for re-release date filter option


Performance improvements ISM logging

Batch forwarding of stat and log reports from repeaters to mirrors
By default, the repeaters forward the stat and log reports to the
mirrors sequentially.
You can batch forward the log and stat reports from the repeaters to
the mirrors.
When a repeater logger plug-in receives a log or a stat report, it checks
for the log.forward.batch.size property in the prefs.txt file of the
repeater. If the log.forward.batch.size property is set to any value
greater than one, then the repeater sends the stat or log reports in
batches.


Inventory Service

Forcing a full scan using the command-line option
You can use the command-line interface of the tuner to force a full
scan on any endpoint. To perform a full scan, you can use the following
syntax:
<runchannel><scannerserviceurl> -fullScan
For example, http://10.10.53.92:5282/InventoryService -fullScan


Report Center

Configuring the checksum cache refresh cycle for plug-ins
You can modify the default checksum synchronization interval in the
inventory plugin
Schedule frequency interval to a custom value.


Custom Segments

Goals

- Extend the capabilities of the segment hierarchy beyond the current
inherited functionality

- BBCA currently offers compatibility support on higher versions of an OS by
the following segment hierarchy
<field name="os">
<value name="Windows" displayname="Windows">
<value name="re:(Windows NT|Windows NT 4.0)" displayname="Windows NT">
<value name="re:(Windows 2000.*|Windows NT 5.0)" displayname="Windows 2000">
<value name="re:(Windows XP.*|Windows XP 5.2|Windows NT 5.1|Windows 2000 5.1)"
displayname="Windows XP">
<value name="re:(Windows 2003.*|Windows 2000 5.2|Windows NT 5.2)"
displayname="Windows 2003">
<value name="re:(Windows Vista.*|Windows NT 6.0)" displayname="Windows Vista">
<value name="re:(Windows Server 2008.*|Windows 2008.*)" displayname="Windows Server
2008"/>
<value name="re:(Windows 7.*|Windows NT 6.1)" displayname="Windows 7"/>


Enhanced custom segment

“flatSegmentation” - Deploy packages to specified target platform
New option, will ignore the “segmens.xml” hierarchy on transmitter
and install only on the specified target platform.
Syntax : runchannel.exe <content rep url> publish -dir <src dir locn> -url
<rep pkg URL> -includeSegment “Windows XP,x86/any” -flatSegmentation


Changes in platform support

New platforms
- Mac 10.7

Platforms Withdrawn
- AIX
- HP-UX,
- IA/PARISC
- Solaris SPARC
- SQL Server Standard Edition (Requires: Enterprise Edition)

Supported upgrade paths
- 8.0 and later
- Earlier than 8.0 should first upgrade to version 8.2.00
- No Change in LDAP Schema
Misc.
- 8.1.01 Goes into limited support in Nov 2012


Cont.

Next CM-UG call
- OSM bare metal
- Break Fix demo


Post 8.2 -Dec 2011

Mac Patching
Bare Metal/ Break-Fix
VDI
Dynamic Subnet Repeater Policy
Enhance Mobile Device
- Android
- Blackberry


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