Tekwurx uControl — driving 100% asset discovery
Tekwurx uControl drives success in discovery and configuration data related projects. Customers use uControl to manage the accuracy and quality of configuration and discovery data.
The uControl platform provides centralised management of distributed BMC Discovery deployments. It automates BMC Discovery updates and includes workflows for simplified and faster Application modelling.
Tekwurx uControl was developed in response to our customers’ frustrations, specifically around the time and skills required to map applications and the effort required to manage a large BMC Discovery estate. Tekwurx uControl provides the ability to:
- Automate application modelling across all environments
- Manage application lifecycle management
- Centralise the management of BMC Discovery Appliances
- Centralise reporting
- Provide additional integrations
Customers found they could achieve large savings after deploying Tekwurx uControl:
- 50% reduction on the time to roll out monthly TKU updates
- 90% reduction in time to model applications. One particular customer quoted, “We went from 30 days to model an application to 30 minutes using uControl.”
The goal for Tekwurx uControl is simple: To help our customers continuously discover all known and unknown assets within their IT estate and populate their CMDB with trusted, high-quality CI data.
While the goal may sound simple, most organisations that we engage with have similar challenges:
- How do we understand what our asset baseline is?
- How do we keep Helix Discovery dynamically up to date with IP ranges?
- How can we make Helix Discovery discover what it doesn’t know about?
- How do we identify & quickly remediate discovery issues?
Tekwurx uControl automatically tracks discovery issues, identifies gaps in data, finds issues affecting data collection and correlates discovered and non-discovered CIs to ensure you can trust your configuration data.
Tekwurx uControl integrates disparate data sources to drive value from your existing investments. Out of the box integrations to Helix Discovery include CSV files, JDBC, API and ServiceNow.
The application models created with Tekwurx uControl use a rule-based approach to identify service components from both discovered and non-discovered CI data. The rules automatically create actionable alerts to identify changes, possible root causes and suggested related components.
The uControl suite comprises:
uMap enables end-users to quickly and efficiently map application/service models through an easy-to-use UI.
This automated solution reduces the amount of effort for modelling by 80 per cent and limits the need for outside expertise.
As a result, the associated costs are dramatically cut.
uChange allows users to understand changes to modelled applications and control any updates back within BMC Helix Discovery. Through an intuitive user interface, businesses can clearly see and manage any alterations to the application topography.
The benefits of uChange’s automated application lifecycle analysis and updates include increased productivity and reduced BMC Helix Discovery management costs.
uManage provides greater control over the management and delivery of BMC Helix Discovery.
The centralised and simplified management of all BMC Helix Discovery appliances ensures increased productivity and oversight.
A key feature is the automation of best practice into a structured workflow, helping you make sure your team is working as effectively as possible.
uReport enables users to analyse reports without the need to learn or use TPL language.
Through the friendly UI, uReport quickly shows users what they need to know about their appliances and application architectures from a top-level view, right down to an in- depth analysis.
This allows businesses to rapidly better understand their infrastructures and how to improve them.
uPolicy provides the ability to set policies for BMC Helix Discovery, Security, Vulnerability, Change Control and Software via a simple user interface. uPolicy will raise an event when a policy is breached.
uAsset digests asset information from multiple systems of record and reconciles this against discovered data to identify gaps in asset data and to identify gaps in discovered data
uControl Teams provides the ability to allocate application mapping and remediation activities to the right team or individual and then track, and report on, progress.