August 21st 2013 (BMC: Channel Store, Agentless Deployment, 8.3 Beta)

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Upcoming CM-UG Events
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The CM-UG call is normally the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 12 noon central time.
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Upcoming Events
2013 CM-UG meeting dates:
Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ noon Central time
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013 @ noon Central time
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ noon Central time
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 @ noon Central time
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BBCA Notifications
› Channel store user guide
› Change in process for downloading channels
› 8.2.02.002 Tech Bulletin

4. BMC Client Automation
CMUG – August 2013
Product Management
Speaker - Nitish Shrivastava

5. 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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6. 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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7. 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. 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
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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)
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You should see Channel store login page in your browser
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You must Register to get access to store. We recommend you use your corporate email id as username
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Once registration is complete, you need to wait for approval from Marimba Administrator (BMC)
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After approval you can log into channel store and copy channels from there
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9. 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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10. 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
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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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11. 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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12. 8.3 Beta Registration is open now
8.3 beta is planned between Oct 7 and Oct 14
Following features are planned*
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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 Nitish_Shrivastava@bmc.com if you want to
participate in beta
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13. 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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14. Update on Patch Simplification
Two phase project
Phase 1 : To be delivered in 2 weeks from now
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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
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To use Shavlik latest SDK that offers
 Latest platform coverage
 more stability
 Customization
Optimizing workflow
Enhancing performance
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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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Potential Meeting Topics/Demos
Open to presentations from CM-UG Members and Vendors.
– Member Presentations:
– Stopping channel shopping (Josh L)
– Custom inventory scanning (Jason M)
– Custom Reporting interfaces
– Custom ARS interfaces
– Vendor Presentations:
– Marimba 8.2 Roadmap (BMC)
– AdminStudio Info (Flexera)
– Marimba/Matrix42 VDI Solutions
– BMC Product Roadmaps
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