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Automate Infrastructure
Patching and IT Compliance
Data Center Automation (DCA) automates infrastructure patchingand IT compliance for the hybrid enterprise.
DCA at a Glance:■ Smarter Patching and Continuous
Compliance Management:
Service Level Objective (SLO)-based patchand compliance scan and remediation actions■ Real-time Vulnerability Risk andCompliance Dashboards:
Quickly identify and prioritize the risk andcompliance state of the datacenter■ Advanced Process Orchestration:

The Challenge

The Solution: DCA

Faced with relentless threats and increasingly
complex compliance standards, enterprise
IT struggles to proactively manage their IT
compliance and patching processes. With aproliferation of tools and manual, error-prone
processes it becomes even more difficult tohave real-time visibility into the risk state ofthe datacenter. The growing scale and nature ofself-service hybrid infrastructure adds furthercomplexities to already strained processes.

OpenText™ DCA provides a powerful solution
for managing these complexities by bringing
together smarter patching, continuous compliance management, real-time visibility into therisk and compliance state of the datacenter, advanced process orchestration for seamless automation, and enhanced reporting capabilities.

Coordinate automated tasks across teams,tools, and environments

Figure 1. Risk dashboard

DCA offers a three step approach to help
streamline your service governance process.

“Using a single version of the truth can significantly
improve decision-making. A compliance and risk
dashboard … [presents] the information in an easy-todigest way, and tools such as DCA provide visibility
into compliance and patch status across theinfrastructure stack.”
ROY ILLSLEY
Principal Analyst, Infrastructure Solutions
Ovum

The first stage is assessment. Scan the riskstate of the data center against policies using the compliance and vulnerability content
provided by DCA, or create your own custom
policies to scan against. Setup recurring scansaccording to SLO’s to proactively identify data
center risks.
After assessing the datacenter, you can quickly
identify and prioritize risk and compliancevariances using DCA’s actionable, drill-down
dashboards. The dashboards show risks byseverity, age, resources affected, key events,
and benchmarks—providing you with the key
information you need to prioritize your remediation efforts.
Once the risks are prioritized, DCA allows you toremediate them according to SLO’s and maintenance windows.
With DCA’s advanced orchestration engine
you can also execute pre and post workflows
on both scan and remediation actions to seamlessly integrate DCA functionality into your service governance process.

The Details
Smarter Patching■ Setup scan and remediation actions

according to SLO’s and maintenancewindows.

■ Manage infrastructure resources

agentlessly out of the box, or integratewith OpenText™ Server Automation tomanage resources via the SA agent.

Continuous Compliance Management■ DCA comes out-of-the-box (OOTB) withmarket-leading compliance benchmarks
and remediation actions for PCI DSS,HIPAA, FISMA, CIS, ISO 27001, and more.
■ Leverage DCA’s OOTB compliance content

along with it’s advanced orchestrationengine to setup continuous compliancemanagement so you’ll always be audit ready.

Advanced Process Orchestration■ Coordinate automated tasks and activities

across teams, tools, and environments.
■ Over 8,000+ ready-made workflows areavailable via Operations Orchestration
content packs.

Reporting and Extensibility■ DCA COSO Reporting captures both

historical as well as transactional patchingand compliance data.
■ Leverage Business Value Dashboards (BVD)or bring your own business intelligence
tool to create custom reports.

■ DCA imports the Common Vulnerability■ Integrations with other OpenText™ ITOM

Exposure (CVE) list from the National
Vulnerability Database along with patch
metadata from authorized sources,
such as vendor repositories.

solutions such as OpenText™ Operations
Bridge Manager, which helps provide amore holistic view of the business service
impact of vulnerabilities.

■ The risk dashboard combines CVE data

■ Integrate with existing third-party tools

and vendor patch data along with thelatest scan results to deliver a real-timeview into the risk state of the datacenter.

via open API’s, allowing you to run DCA
functionality from nearly any external
application.

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The Business Value
DCA provides the insights and automation tohelp you build an automated, end-to-end service governance process.
Learn more at
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