March 2013 (BMC: Marimba Roadmap)

Configuration Management – User Group (formerly: Marimba Users Group)

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CM-UG Meeting Minutes – March 20th 2013

NEW

Conference Call Information

All CM-UG calls unless otherwise noted will use

the following dial in information:

US Conferencing Number: 1-855-747-8824

NEW CODE: 239 – 774 – 3116 Toll: 1-719-325-2630

India: 000 800 100 7687

Germany: 0800 588 9225

Agenda:

1. Upcoming CM-UG Events

2. Issues/Concerns

3. 32/64 bit meeting (March 28th)

4. Marimba roadmap

5. BBCA Training classes

6. User Interaction

7. ADDM Users?

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Upcoming CM-UG Events

2013 CM-UG meeting dates:

Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ noon Central time – Special meeting for 32/64 bit channels

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 @ noon Central time

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 @ noon Central time

Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ noon Central time

Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 @ noon Central time

Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 @ noon Central time

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

Upcoming Events

Reminder:

The CM-UG call is normally the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 12 noon central time.

The CM-UG calendar is also located here > http://calendar.cm-ug.com

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Issue Discussion

Josh @ FM:

Josh reported a change of behavior in 8.2.02 on ‘wow’ redirection on 64 bit machines

Answer:

In Windows, there is a redirection concept. This redirection happens at three areas - System32-SysWOW64 folder,

ProgramFiles-Program Files(x86) folder and in registry WoW6432Node location. Based on the architecture of

application writing to these locations, it will decide the location to write. Pre 8.2.02, we had a 32 bit engine. It used to

write to 32 bit locations (programFiles(x86), SysWow64, WOW6432Node in registry). Now, we have 64 bit agent it

will write at 64 bit locations (program files , System32 and outside WOW6432Node in registry). His question is if this

is a right way and if their packages will place data properly in right location. From product side, this is the way we

have designed it and it should work that way.

We will hold a meeting to further explain the details.



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32/64 Bit Meeting

Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013

Time: Noon Central Time - 10:30 pm, India Time (Mumbai, GMT+05:30)

Meeting Number: 318 151 795

Meeting Password: 123

US Conferencing Number: 1-855-747-8824

NEW CODE: 239 – 774 – 3116 Toll: 1-719-325-2630

India: 000 800 100 7687

Germany: 0800 588 9225

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Product Management March 2013

BMC Client Automation Roadmap

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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.


Abstract…


BBCA Roadmap

2012 Mar Apr May Jun Jul

2013 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan

BBCA 8.3

Support Kerberos-Enhanced Security

Platform Support

Mac 10.8, Window 8, JDK 7, Windows 2012, SQL Server 2012

Value Realization

64 Bit Infrastructure

Peer Approval

Allow policies to be staged, policy will only be deployed once

approved

Distributed CMS Workload

Power Usage Enhancements

Policy / Inventory sync

Patch Dashboard

User extensible scanner

Auto repair tuner – phase 1

BBCA 8.2.02

Platform Support

Mac 10.8.3, Windows 8 ‘Blue’, Windows Embedded 8 , JRE upgrade

Value Realization

Session isolation

User centric deployment

Config setting remediation

Collection based configuration setting

IPv6

Native Command Interface

Version Independent Packager

Patch Simplification

License key scanner

FDCC

AD Forest – Phase 1 (Spike to decide if this can make it)*


BBCA Roadmap

2013 Mar Apr May Jun Jul

2014 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan

BBCA 8.3

Platform Support

Mac 10.8.3, Windows 8 ‘Blue’, Windows Embedded 8 , JRE upgrade

Value Realization

Session isolation

User centric deployment

Config setting remediation

Collection based configuration setting

IPv6

Native Command Interface

Version Independent Packager

Patch Simplification

License key scanner

FDCC

AD Forest – Phase 1 (Spike to decide if this can make it)*

BBCA 8.5

Platform Support

Support for new OS will continue

Value Realization

Dynamic SBRP

AD Forest – Phase 2

Enhancement to user based software usage / deployment – VDI

SaaS based reporting & Infrastructure Management

Mac Patching

Multi-Tenancy

MDM


Feb 4 : 8.2.02 GA announcement

March 4 : Pietho Patch starts

April 5 : Pietho Patch announcement/GA

April 29 : Caelestis release will start

July 1 : Marimba TechFair

Sept 16 : Caelestis Beta

Sept 30 : Mid release planning (Post beta feedback)

Oct 21 : Bug Hunt

Dec 6 : Caelestis release announcement/GA

2013 calendar

Mar Apr May Jun Jul Jan Feb Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec


Mar Apr May Jun Jul Jan Feb Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

BBCA - Caelestis ‘8.3’ release

TechFair

Beta

BH

Pietho

8.2.02

2013 – Event details

8.3

Pre Release

Bug Hunt


April 2013 - 8.2.02.001 ‘Peitho’ release

8.2.02 first patch will be release in April 2013

Special patch - QA centric and quality driven - Complete change in development process for this patch

Will be following big release cycle Three phases – Spike, Development and Hardening (QA)

- Every change will be audited by Change Control Board (comprise of Architects)

- Important RFEs and Backlog defects will be fixed

Preparation for 8.3 release - This patch would take away backlog by around 50% - Next release ‘8.3’ will start in April - Team will have less backlog to worry for - Full focus on new features


December 2013 – 8.3 ‘Caelestis’ release

Support to 8200, 8201, 8202

RFEs & PM stories

Focus on four main areas - Reduce maintenance cost - Next Gen Models - Integration Models - BBCA Extensions


8.3 ‘Caelestis‘ Release

Reduce Maintenance Cost - Session isolation - Storage abstraction - Version Independent Packager - Patch Simplification – Using DLLs and Dynamic input parameters - User centric deployment - Config setting remediation - Collection based configuration setting - FDCC scanner

Next Gen Models - IPv6 - Native command interface - License key scanner - AD forest – Spike to define if phase 1 will be finished in this release

Integration Models - Open Protocol - Support of Ftp, Tftp, SMB, http - Service framework input/output at every layer - SaaS based distribution/reporting

BBCA Extensions - BBCA Channel Store (Software center and application catalog) – Central channel repository - BBCA Studio – Dev IDE to write custom BBCA channel


July 2014 – 8.5 ‘Acme’ release

Support to 8201, 8202, 8300

RFEs & PM stories

Focus on new generation models - MDM - SaaS infrastructure and distribution - Multi-tenancy - Dynamic SBRP - AD forest – Final phase - User based software usage and deployment - Mac patching


Marimba - Not just a software, it’s a platform, a framework

Comes with over 30 supported channels to perform specific tasks

The real power comes from the ability of customization

Extremely Flexible and Robust when it comes to customization

Customer environments are customized with custom channels/scripts

Channels have always been around for customization - custom scanner, patch and monitoring…

Some are generic while others specific

Many customized channels are available – with customers , BMC, Partners, SEs…

Prelude…


Presenting – Marimba Channel Store


Market for channel distribution

Common ‘store’ for - Customers - Partners - Consultants - Engineering

Channels could be ‘paid’, ‘free’ and can come with or without source code

Affiliated ‘users’ will get development kit - Marimba Development kit

Customers will get - Channel Copier and browser to list

purchased items and manage them

Starts with over 60 FSRK channels that comes with source code

Marimba Market – The channel store


IDE for Marimba channel development

New ‘Marimba IDE’ plugin for eclipse to allow Marimba channels coding.

Gives the following categories (through wizard): - - Custom Inventory - Custom ISM - Marimba channel

Select plugin specific to BBCA version at your setup. Available plugins are: - - 8.2.00 - 8.2.01 - 8.2.02

Plugin would get the required binaries/Jars for code writing

Build, test and publish the channel to any transmitter from the IDE itself

Offers customization (like Segment, OS etc)

Marimba Dev kit – Marimba Studio


Marimba Channel Store


Questions/Suggestions ???

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BBCA Training classes


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›BMC Developer Network Please register an account on the new BMC developer network.

These forums are very nice and provide a single place now for all BMC products.

BBCA Forums


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Marimba Jobs

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I know of a few app package jobs right now

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Potential Meeting Topics/Demos

Open to presentations from CM-UG Members and Vendors.

Upcoming CM-UG Events

– 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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