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Business Challenge
IT organizations need to collect mainframe data, identify mainframe configuration items (CIs), and see how they are configured. Today's number of IT components, their configurations, relationships between them, and the constant changes introduced by business and technology needs makes manual tracking difficult. It is impractical and costly to conduct manual audits and maintain IT service relationship and application dependency mapping information.
Business Need
- Auto-populate and maintain the CMDB with mainframe CI and CI relationships
- Access to a fast map of IT elements and the interdependencies of those elements
- Deploy changes to the infrastructure quickly and seamlessly
Our Solution
BMC Discovery for z/OS identifies which IT components comprise mainframes. It extends BMC Topology Discovery to the mainframe to quickly and easily build an inventory of critical physical and logical entities along with their interrelationships. This information is then populated in the BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB) for service modeling and service impact analysis. BMC Discovery for z/OS is part of BMC Discovery, which is a solution for capturing, reconciling, and continuously updating all three dimensions of BSM data: People, Business Process, and IT Infrastructure.
Key Features & Benefits
- Integrates with the BMC Atrium CMDB or exports to custom or third-party CMDBs
- Enables IT to extend BMC Topology Discovery to cover IBM mainframes
- Quickly inventories the z/OS platform and all major software subsystems
- Provides a best practices manual and support for easily integrating discovered CIs with service impact and event management
- Provides an up-to-date view of dependencies and relationships that make up IT and business services
- Enables asset, incident and problem, change and configuration, and service level management
- Enables IT to resolve the most urgent incidents faster by impact modeling to associate and prioritize incidents by business service criticality
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Article
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Viewpoint Article: Can People Be Configuration Items?
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Automated Discovery: The first step toward Business Service Management Success
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Brochure
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BMC Virtualization Management Solution Brief
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2008 BMC Annual Report
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BMC Educational Services
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Datasheet
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BMC Identity Discovery Datasheet
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BMC Configuration Discovery
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BMC Atrium CMDB - The Market-leading CMDB for Effective Business Service Management (BSM) Deployments
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BMC Foundation Discovery Datasheet
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BMC Discovery for Mainframes
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BMC Discovery for Business Processes
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BMC Atrium CMDB
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BMC Topology Discovery Datasheet
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BMC Discovery Solution Datasheet
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White Paper
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Best Practices for Modeling Business Entities in the BMC Atrium CMDB
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Swing into Business Service Management - Seven Strategies
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Bridging the Gap between Business Processes and the IT Environment
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Building a Foundation for Managing Business-Aligned IT Environments
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Virtualization: Planning the Full IT Lifecycle
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