BMC Marimba/CM KB

Upgrade Guide 6x to 7x

Configuration Management (Marimba) Best Practices and Troubleshooting

BMC Marimba/CM Updates

Difference between Marimba6.0.3 and BMC CM 7.2

Requirement to integrate BMC CM 7.2.01 with Active Directory

Cannot enable/configure Inventory after upgrade to BMC CM v7.

CM7/Marimba CMDB 2.0.1 Integration - Remedy Link SQL?

Package installation error in BMC CM 7.2.1

BMC® Configuration Management CMS and Tuner 7.1 Administrator’s Guide

Re: Automate deployment of package in Marimba from Remedy

Integrating Marimba with Active Directory.

BMC Marimba/CM

BMC Configuration Management solutions (formerly Marimba ) are now Microsoft Windows Vista compatible. This new support for Windows Vista broadens the number of supported operating systems and now provides policy-based automation of change execution for patches, operating systems, and applications for IT departments looking to deploy Windows Vista. In addition to supporting all major operating systems, BMC Configuration Management support for Windows Vista can:

• Coordinate Windows Vista upgrades via built-in templates that support the Microsoft Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) methodology
• Meet demanding compliance and audit requirements
• Deploy and update images via recommended Microsoft standard Windows Image (WIM) and ImageX tools and formats
• Centrally manage all Windows Vista image, build parameters, and patches through the BMC Configuration Management infrastructure

BMC Configuration Management solutions support industry best practices, including the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) and are an integral part of the BMC Change and Configuration Management solution strategy. A strategy that delivers integrated and automated change management, release management, and configuration management into a closed-loop process encompassing all phases of the change life cycle: request, planning, implementation, and verification.

The BMC Configuration Management portfolio includes the following applications:

• BMC Patch Manager
• BMC Software Usage
• BMC Application Manager
• BMC Remedy Change Management
• BMC Remedy Asset Management

The Configuration Management product line is also an integral part of BMC’s Closed-loop Configuration Management solutions for automating key change management business processes:

• BMC Closed-loop Client Management
• BMC Configuration Manager
• BMC Service Automation

BMC Software plans to spend $239 million to acquire Marimba, continuing a consolidation trend in the management software arena.

CISSP Stuff

CISSP^® - Certified Information Systems Security Professional

The Certification That Inspires Utmost Confidence
If you plan to build a career in information security – one of today’s most visible professions – and if you have at least five full years of experience in information security, then the CISSP^® credential should be your next career goal.

The CISSP was the first credential in the field of information security, accredited by the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) to ISO (International Standards Organization) Standard 17024:2003. CISSP certification is not only an objective measure of excellence, but a globally recognized standard of achievement.

For your CISSP credential, your professional experience has to be in two or more of these 10 (ISC)² CISSP domains:

• Access Control
• Application Security
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning
• Cryptography
• Information Security and Risk Management
• Legal, Regulations, Compliance and Investigations
• Operations Security
• Physical (Environmental) Security
• Security Architecture and Design
• Telecommunications and Network Security

Network Security Tips-Cisco security Centre

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/home.x

Cisco Security Agent

What is CSA?

So what is the Cisco Security Agent (CSA) product?

"Cisco Security Agent is the industry leader in defending endpoints against targeted attacks, malicious mobile code, rootkits, worms, and day-zero attacks."

What does CSA 6.0 Provide?

Scalable architecture, upto 100,000 agents supported
Centralized Management
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Signature-Based Antivirus (optional)
Zero Update Protection
Compliance and Acceptable-Use Policy Auditing and Enforcement
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) policies
Location-based policies
User-State based polices
USB Control
Wireless comms restrictions
Content control
Host Firewall

to name a few....

And how can it help protect my infrastructure?

Well thats what i hope to show on this Blog, keep popping by to find out!

friday, december 05, 2008

Coming Soon.......

Watch this space!, this blog will kick into life very soon :-)

friday, december 08, 2006

CSA Starts Here!

I hope this blog will go a long way to explaining what the Cisco Security Agent (CSA) Product is, and what its capabilities are on the Desktop and Server.

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Cisco Security Agent 6.0.1 Released

Cisco have released CSA version 6.0.1

You can view the release notes HERE

New Features

CSA MC High Availability Solution

CSA MC on a Virtual Machine

Expanded Platform Support

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, Solaris 10 and SUSE Linux 10

Management Summary Reports

"My Custom" Components

Digital Signature Identification

Scheduling Software Update Wizard

More to follow.....

tuesday, february 17, 2009

CSA Flash Demos

You can view a flash demo presentation, of some of the features of Cisco Security Agent, HERE.

wednesday, february 11, 2009

CSA 6.0 - 6.0.0.220: - Fourth OFFICIAL Hotfix released

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6.0.0.220: - Fourth OFFICIAL Hotfix release
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Hotfix 6.0.0.220 addressed the following issues:

CSCsu52443 "Events by Policy" home page graph takes too long to generate

CSCsw90541 CSA: Agent Can Be Disabled via Service Account Manipulation

CSCsx04098 MC Event Wizard can't create Host Address trust status related
         exception

CSCsx07130 CSA generating file names with invalid chars, unable to match facl

CSCsx20896 Previously downloaded virus test file is not quarantined by CSA AV

CSCsx30004 Event text filtering does not work if filter has UNICODE characters

wednesday, january 28, 2009

CSA 6.0 - 6.0.0.214: - Third OFFICIAL Hotfix released

The third official hotfix for CSA 6.0, version 6.0.0.214 was released a couple of weeks ago.

This release fixes the following issues...

CSCsq23259 Database deadlocks during event purge

CSCsu86523 CSA causing SQL server processes to take too long

CSCsv65284 Some users unable to login to AD accounts from any computer

CSCsv73993 Unresolve symbol past our build procedures

CSCsv76616 Hungarian version of WinXP sp3 show as a none support platform

CSCsv89482 Selected app. class not visible in configuration of migrated rule

CSCsw14779 SMB null sessions from VIsta machine not detected by CSA

CSCsw38063 Add support for LHA Japanese compression utilities in Default Policies

CSCsw41100 CSA on Vista does not check for MC Reachability when NIC unplugged

CSCsw43282 Event Log filtering fails when sorting by date

CSCsw63605 Enh: CSA 6 Always show 'Change Proxy' link in Home page Maintenance area

CSCsw64226 explorer.exe is missing from white list