HP Server Automation complements HP Insight Control to manage HP BladeSystem servers (487616-001, February 2008)

entire IT
server
infrastructure to validate compliance against
audit policies
and immediately remedi
ate
any areas that are out of compliance.
You can write p
olicies to cover software installation,
application configuration, system configuration, virtualization, network
,
and storage.
In addition, out
-
of
-
the
-
box reports
show whether
systems comply with reg
ulatory standards
.
You
can use the HP Live
Network
subscription service to acquire the most
up
-
to
-
date
security
and regulatory compliance
policies, which
you
can appl
y
to systems as appropriate.
The compliance policies from HP Live
Network are drawn from s
tandards such as
Center for Internet Security (
CIS
)
,
Sarbanes
-
Oxley (
SOX
)
,
Payment Card Industry (PCI), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Federal
Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
.
New security vulnerability policies ar
e generated
daily from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD).
Because
these policies
are configured as HP
Server Automation policies,
you can
add them
easily
to systems for quick auditing and remediation.
Upgrade and
provision
Server Automation
provisi
ons operating system baselines onto bare
-
metal servers quickly, consistently
,
and with minimal manual intervention.
You can
enforce
,
easily update
and
patch
,
and refresh
consistent and secure server baselines
quickly to meet
your
corporate standards. For s
oftware
provisioning, a simple user interface makes it easy
for you
to create new software policies that
contain code, content, scripts
,
and configurations. All policies, for both software and operating
system, are stored in folders with read/write access
to foster sharing of policies while maintaining
control over who can deploy, edit
,
and view policies.
For virtual server environments, Server Automation supports provisioning and control of VMware ESX
server and
Sun
Solaris 10 containers. All operating sy
stem and software policies can be used across
physical and virtual servers.
Process
automation
Server Automation, a key component of
Data Center Automation Center (
Figure
3
)
, provides
capabilities to automate oper
ations and processes across disparate I
T teams and systems. Integrating
with HP Operations Orchestration, Server Automation
workflows automatically coordinate and
sequence IT processes and its sub
-
tasks to manage end
-
to
-
end operations and to ensure that IT
follows
best practices.
Also, by
seamlessly integrating with other products in
the Data Center Automation
suite, Server Automation
offers server administrators deep visibility into network, storage, and
business application elements in the data center.