Leveraging Smart Groups in TrueSight Server Automation Sumeet Hemnani Lead Technical Marketing © Copyright 2017 BMC Software, Inc.

What are Smart Groups Groups which are automatically created based on conditions on object properties. Members of a smart group must satisfy the conditions to be included in a smart group, members cannot be added or deleted manually. © Copyright 2018 BMC Software, Inc. - BMC Confidential—Internal Use Only

Types of Smart Groups Top-level folders: Component Templates Components Depot (Patch Catalog) Devices (Bare-metal) Jobs Servers* Sub-folders or sub-groups of any of the top-level folders An existing smart group* © Copyright 2018 BMC Software, Inc. - BMC Confidential—Internal Use Only

Smart Groups: Properties and Permissions © Copyright 2018 BMC Software, Inc. - BMC Confidential—Internal Use Only

Leveraging Smart Groups Leveraging Smart Groups for Patch Analysis Leveraging Smart Groups as targets in Jobs Highly recommended for snapshot jobs Better Organize their work spaces Adhoc Filtering © Copyright 2018 BMC Software, Inc. - BMC Confidential—Internal Use Only

Links / other things How to classify servers efficiently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ZNu_P4hM8&feature=youtu.be Creating smart groups: https://youtu.be/UDBjta_PNUk A recording of the session and this deck will be posted to the event Communities page https://communities.bmc.com/events/1277 (Communities.bmc.com -> Events and User Groups -> Event Calendar -> “Leveraging Smart Groups in TrueSight Server Automation” Contact seth_paskin@bmc.com if you have other questions about the content, presentation and topic or would like to offer feedback © Copyright 2018 BMC Software, Inc. - BMC Confidential—Internal Use Only

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