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August 21st 2013 (BMC: Channel Store, Agentless Deployment, 8.3 Beta)TRANSCRIPT
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Upcoming CM-UG Events
2013 CM-UG meeting dates:
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›Channel store user guide
›Change in process for downloading channels
›8.2.02.002 Tech Bulletin
BBCA Notifications
Product Management Speaker - Nitish Shrivastava
BMC Client Automation CMUG – August 2013
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Legal Notice
The information contained in this presentation is the confidential information of BMC, Inc. and is being provided to you with the express understanding that without the prior written consent of BMC, you may not discuss or otherwise disclose this information to any third party or otherwise make use of this information for any purpose other than for which BMC intended.
All of the future product plans and releases described herein are at the sole discretion of BMC and are subject to change and/or cancellation, and in no way should these future product plans be viewed as commitments on BMC’s part.
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Agenda
Update on products.marimba.com
8.2.02.002 Release notification
8.3 Beta Registration
Patch Simplification Update
RFE - Agentless Deployment
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Agenda
Update on products.marimba.com
8.2.02.002 Release notification
8.3 Beta Registration
Patch Simplification Update
RFE - Agentless Deployment
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products.marimba.com
In past, Customers were using channel copier to copy channels from product to their local transmitter
Effective August 20, Customers can’t subscribe/copy Marimba Channels (Version 8.2.00 onwards) directly from products.marimba.com
Customers will have to use “Channel Store”
Steps to be followed: -
- Subscribe channel store from http://products.marimba.com/channelstore
Note: The channel can be subscribed on tuner > 8.1.01
- Once channel is subscribed successfully, you can open a browser and connect to http://<host-name>:8585
(It should open browser and connect to store on its own)
- You should see Channel store login page in your browser
- You must Register to get access to store. We recommend you use your corporate email id as username
- Once registration is complete, you need to wait for approval from Marimba Administrator (BMC)
- After approval you can log into channel store and copy channels from there
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Agenda
Update on products.marimba.com
8.2.02.002 Release notification
8.3 Beta Registration
Patch Simplification Update
RFE - Agentless Deployment
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8.2.02.002 patch is available in store now
8.2.02.002 channels can be obtained from channel store under following category :- - Current - 8.2.02 - Current and - 8.2.02.002
List of released channels - Application Packager - Channel Manager - Infrastructure Service - Patch Manager - Patch Service - Windows Patch Source - Channel Store - Marimba Eclipse Plugin - Common Management Services - Infrastructure Administration - Report Center - Schema Manager - Transmitter
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Agenda
Update on products.marimba.com
8.2.02.002 Release notification
8.3 Beta Registration
Patch Simplification Update
RFE - Agentless Deployment
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8.3 Beta Registration is open now
8.3 beta is planned between Oct 7 and Oct 14
Following features are planned* - Channel store - Session Isolation - Native Command Interface - Configuration Setting Remediation - Patch Simplification - Enhancement to User Centric Deployment - Software title and license scanner - Version independent packaging
Please send email to [email protected] if you want to participate in beta
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Agenda
Update on products.marimba.com
8.2.02.002 Release notification
8.3 Beta Registration
Patch Simplification Update
RFE - Agentless Deployment
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Update on Patch Simplification
Two phase project
Phase 1 : To be delivered in 2 weeks from now - Project is in progress. On track so far - We are trying to optimize the way repository is built - Offers ‘sync’ capability that allow WPS to sync repo from our server (cloud).
And at any point, customer can fall back to ‘creating’ their own repository
Phase 2 : 8.3 - To use Shavlik latest SDK that offers
Latest platform coverage more stability Customization
- Optimizing workflow - Enhancing performance
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Agenda
Update on products.marimba.com
8.2.02.002 Release notification
8.3 Beta Registration
Patch Simplification Update
RFE - Agentless Deployment
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Not everything is managed through agents. Every organization uses a ‘parallel’ method to distribute packages / binaries. These binaries (mostly MSI) go down to machines that may or may not have agent installed. This gives IT admins more flexibility on managing their heterogeneous environment. It comes with limitation though. IT admins need parallel infrastructure.
Think about a case when you can still have this ‘parallel process’ but it uses Marimba Infrastructure. Your team uses same packager to create installers. One common installer for machine with or without agent. And it uses the same infrastructure (Mirror/repeater). The download comes from the ‘right repeater’ and it uses global definition (bandwidth etc)
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A’less Deployment
New Application Packager to allow ‘Generic’ installers
These installers wont need a ‘tuner’ for installation
User can browse transmitter, locate the channel and just ‘installs’ it on the machine (even when there is no tuner)
The installer (comes in msi) will get installed on the machine.
It will install package with all the settings that is defined in package (at the time of creating the package)
After installation, it scan the machine, picks the software details and send it back to Inventory DB for tracking
Administrator can query machines that install ‘Generic’ package. It can also help in tracking licenses
All of it, without a tuner on the endpoint
And it uses Marimba deployment infrastructure (Master / Mirror / Repeater)
To be released during BETA
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Upcoming CM-UG Events
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– Custom Reporting interfaces
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