VMware
Vendor Features
| Feature | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| ServiceNow Integration | Integrates with ITSM and ITIL principles and processes within ServiceNow | BugZero bug tasks are inserted into your ServiceNow and into your IT Operations processes |
| Manged Products Sync | Scans your CMDB and/or vendor portal for all devices deployed within your organization. Includes the ability to disable any managed products that you don't want to monitor | This feature enables the core functionality of BugZero, scanning your environment and allowing you to choose which products we monitor |
| Data Normalization | Mapping vendor data and terminology to a standardized ServiceNow format | Different vendors provide bug data in many different formats and using different terminology. BugZero brings that varied data into your ServiceNow in a normalized structure |
| Category / Service / Module Filter | As defined by the vendor, these bugs could affect certain product modules, services, or categories | These are different categories for different vendors which provide additional filtering options. |
| Bug Statuses | Filtering based on the status of the bug in the vendor's bug resolution process | Open - The bug has not been fixed || Fixed - The bug has been fixed || Terminated - A decision was made not to fix the bug |
| Bug Types Filter | Filtering based on the type of bug | Configuration, patch, upgrade, troubleshoot, etc |
| Keyword Exclusion | Exclude bugs that contain any keywords of your choosing | Any word. Seriously |
| Priority Mapping | Mapping the vendor's bug severity terminology to ServiceNow Impact / Urgency / Priority | A critical bug from the vendor might be mapped in ServiceNow as 1-High / 1-High / 1-Critical |
| Vendor Cloud Inventory | Integrates with vendor 'call home' portal to pull inventory | This is currently only available from a few vendors: Cisco, Vmware, and NetApp. |
| Multi Cloud Tenant Support | Filter unneeded tenants when there are multiple tenants in your vendor cloud portal | If your vendor portal manages many different accounts or locations, you can filter out ones you don’t want |
| Bug Date Range | Choose how many days to look back for published bugs | Do you only want to see bugs published in the past 90 days. Or bug published in the past year? Or all time? |
| Operational mis-configs | Vendor mis-configuration alerts | Notification of a mis-config in your environment |
| Security mis-configs | Vendor security mis-configuration alerts | Notification of a security mis-config in your environment |
| Community Insights | Information gathered from the user community in addition to the information provided by the vendor | This can consist of many different types of information that may not be included in the vendors standard bug report |
| Bug Risk Score Matrices | Bug risk score calculation based on vendor data and user defined matrices | Configure your own bug risk score calculator based on vendor specific matrices to add to every vendor bug discovered for you environment |
Prevent Outages from Vendor Bugs
BugZero decreases risk and increases IT Operational Resilience by integrating with your ITSM tool to collect, filter, correlate, and track non-security bugs specific to your vendor products
Prerequisites
A registered VMware Cloud Services account with VMware Skyline enabled and configured for every organization to be supported by the BugZero integration
VMware Cloud Services login credentials for the configured account
A BugZero account with access to the BugZero UI
Complete the BugZero ServiceNow Integration Guide
Access to the ServiceNow instance configured with your BugZero account