January 15th 2014 (BMC/Symphony updates for 8.3)

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Marimba
User Group – January 2014
Nitish Shrivastava
January 15, 2014
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5. Marimba 8.3 at a glance…
• Biggest Marimba release after 7.5.00
• Focus on
• Empowering IT admin with more flexible and simplified automation tools
• Stability, Consistency, Availability and scalability
• Drift from ‘machine’ to ‘everything’
• ‘Inclusive’ Automation to replace parallel infrastructure, achieve agentless control of ‘unmanaged
machines.
• Marimba as a ‘Platform’
• Customize the way you want
• Hook and integrate any product with Marimba workflow
• Comes with SDK and Dev IDE
• Over 20 new features to make things more flexible for administrators
• Comes with over 25 MRK and 40 FSRK channels
• Incomparable features make this one among the best in the domain…
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6. 8.3 – Features…
Marimba over Internet
• Marimba now supports Inventory, Policy, Patching and deployment over Internet with the same configuration.
Marimba Packaging
• Generic Installer for ‘Agentless Deployment’
Unique and innovative ‘Installer’ that can be installed on machines without ‘tuner’. It gives a ‘unique’ capability to report
package information back in Inventory for compliance/auditing. So now you can Manage Everything with Marimba
• Automatic upgrade of packages during installation
Upgrading ‘Pre-8.3.00’packages will not be required now. Application Packager fixes until 8.3.00 version will be available for
older version packages without the need for re-packaging
Infrastructure
• Support for 64-bit CMS (including Infrastructure Administrator)
• Session Isolation
Marimba agent now separates the UI components from the service application. A new executable ‘marimbaclient.exe’
encapsulates the UI functionality for Marimba Tuner and interacts with the tuner to handles all communication and events
between the tuner and the UI.
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7. 8.3 – features contd…
Marimba Discovery
• Agentless Discovery
Use ‘Host Discovery’ to find machines in your network that don’t have a tuner installed on them.
• Advanced software title discovery
The License Key Scanner provides options for the administrator to customize the software title for specific
executable files.
• Support for custom decryption logic in License Key Scanner
License Key Scanner 8.3.00 supports Custom decryption logic which allows you to scan license keys of nonMicrosoft products using custom decryption channel built in your environment
• Support for USGCB standards
8.3.00 USGCB scan enables you to monitor the USGCB compliance of your Windows computers against the
benchmarks in Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) bundles
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8. 8.3 – features contd…
Advanced and Improved Policy based depoyment
• User Centric Deployment
Now, define policy for user in an advanced way. The feature extends the user policies of PolicyManager to
allow binding of machines to users. Administrator can define separate policy for primary and secondary
machine of any specific user or group
• Site based deployment
You can use the site based deployment feature of the Policy Manager to configure policies for sites or
subnets
• Multiforest - Phase 1
• Command-line option to export all, or only child policies from Subscription Manager
On Demand Deployment
• Improved Deployment Manager for on-demand deployment on both server and client machine.
The New Improved Deployment Manager to perform Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI),
PowerShell, and Registry operations on the target endpoints or servers (Including LDAP groups too)
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9. 8.3 – features contd…
Patching
• New patch deployment process
Now you don’t have to build the whole repository for patch rollout. 8.3 offers a much improved and
optimized patch deployment process that allow packaging of only relevant patches. This bring down
deployment time drastically.
• Improved Windows Patch Source
Windows Patch Source now comes with a significant improvement in Packaging performance and it also
supports simultaneous packaging of multiple locales
Marimba Store
• Organization store
Create flexible & customizable Channel Store specific to your organization using 8.3.
• Channel Store enhancements
Improvements in channel store to offer many new features.
• Over 30 Custom Channels under ‘Marimba Resource Kit’
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10. 8.3 – features contd…
Marimba Extensions
Now any java developer can customize marimba by writing a custom java channel. Use Marimba Eclipse
Plugin to auto-generate code wrapper for different Marimba Channels. It also gives option to compile and
publish channel to transmitter (Including Store).
Marimba as a platform
Customize almost everything with 8.3 code connectors. Create customized plugin, inventory, ISM & store
connector to change the workflow as per organizational needs. You can now integrate any ‘self-service’ or
‘approval’ product with Marimba and customize the workflow. Marimba offers ‘platform capability’ for its
user that can help customize almost everything and add custom workflow. Convert any code or tool to
Marimba channel and integrate in workflow.
Update and Embedded SDK
8.3 SDK for Java and C developer to create their own apps and use Marimba platform. A unique capability
that allow Marimba integration with any product.
New platform support
OS
: Win 8.1, win 8 embedded, win 8.1 embedded, win server 2012 R2, Mac 10.9
Browser : IE11, Firefox 26, Chrome 32
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11. 8.3.00 documentation available for download
Download documentation channel from channel store (category ‘8.3.00.000 documentation)’
The documentation channel is now available for download. You can login to channel store, and get
documentation channel from ‘8.3.00.000 – documentation’ category
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12. 8.3 – GA status
• Channels are published in channel store but are currently locked
• The channels will be ‘unlocked’ within next 2 weeks
• Customers will get official communication from BMC about ‘transition’ to Symphony and how they can
get access to 8.3 within 2 weeks
• Point of contact – Symphony Teleca
ARTURO SAMPER
Director of Support Services
Symphony Teleca
5360 Legacy Drive, Suite 120, Plano, TX 75024
Phone: +18139207013, Fax: +19726966999
Mobile: +18134763287
Arturo.Samper@Symphonyteleca.com
www.symphonyteleca.com
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13. 2014 Calendar
Important dates
• March Mid
• March End
• April 7
• September
• November end
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: 8.3 ‘special’ Patch
: Use cases discussion for next release
: 8.5 release starts
: 8.5 Beta
: 8.5 release
2 Patches for 8.3.00
1 Patch for 8.2.02
1 Patch for 8.2.01
Critical fixes
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14. Product Roadmap…
8.3.00 ‘Special Patch’ (Scheduled for March mid)
• Will have OS migration solution
• Will have support for IPv6 (was committed for 8.3 but we decided to move it to patch)
• Will have customer reported defects and few important RFEs (Around base 8.3.00)
8.5 backlog/RFEs (Scheduled for December 2014)
• Multi-Tenacy
• Multi-forest (final phase)
• Mobile Devices Management (MDM)
• Marimba as a Service
• Mac patching
• SCAP 1.2
9.0 backlog/RFEs (Scheduled for September 2015)
• VDI
• Final phase of OS provisioning (support for all OS/Citrix/VM)
• Infrastructure on Cloud
• Dynamic reporting/Management
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15. More from user group
• 8.3.00 Release date and details on how a customer can get
This will be officially communicated in next 1-2 weeks
• Marimba Roadmap
Already shared in this presentation
• Competitive analysis – Marimba Vs SCCM/Bigfix
We will share the report in next 2 weeks
• 8.3 Patch ‘OS Image solution’ details
This will be shared in next 1 week. And we will invite customers in use case
discussion starting Feb 1
• WPS – Property to optimize repository update
set cache.force.repackage to false. Please contact support team for any help in
applying the setting
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