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BMC® Performance Manager Express for Hardware

BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware monitors the health of your servers hardware within BMC® Portal.

It's a native Performance Manager for BMC Portal: it doesn't need to be installed on each monitored server. It doesn't rely on a PATROL Agent: it is agent-less. Once loaded into BMC Portal, you can check the hardware components of your servers from your Web browser through the Portal interface. The operators will be alerted as soon as a hardware failure is detected somewhere in your IT infrastructure.

It's greater and easier than any other hardware monitoring solution available on the market: with the same module, you can monitor the hardware of almost any server. Great server coverage and easy integration!


Unmatched Monitoring Coverage
Hardware Sentry monitors the hardware of the following servers:
UNIX servers:
Sun SPARC servers
Sun Opteron servers
HP 9000 (HP-UX)
HP AlphaServer (Tru64)
IBM RS/6000 (AIX)
IBM pSeries (AIX)
IBM eServer p5 (AIX) 		LINUX servers:
DELL PowerEdge
HP ProLiant
HP Integrity
HP SuperDome
IBM xSeries
Sun x64 servers
Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy 		WINDOWS Servers:
DELL PowerEdge
HP ProLiant & NetServer
HP Integrity & SuperDome
IBM xSeries & Netfinity
Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy
NEC Express5800
No-brand PCs

On each server, Hardware Sentry monitors these components:
Critical devices:
Processors
Memory modules
Network adapters
Power supplies 		Sensors:
Temperature
Voltage
Fans 		Storage:
Disks
RAID arrays
SCSI controllers
ATA/IDE controllers
Key Benefits
  • Increase server uptime by preventing hardware failures
  • Unified and universal: easy and cost-effective monitoring
  • Use BMC Performance Manager as your single monitoring solution
  • No need for multiple consoles!
Features
  • Disk monitoring: physical disks and RAID status
  • Component monitoring: processors, memory modules, network interfaces and power supplies
  • Environment monitoring: temperatures, fans and voltages
  • Diagnostics: full hardware health reports give details about failures, their consequences and how to fix them
  • Shows only the useful hardware information available; no obfuscated or useless data
  • Simply install on the managed system: it automatically detects the environment, no configuration needed
  • Easy-to-use GUI; easy mass deployment and configuration
  • Full integration within the BMC Performance Manager framework
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How It Works
BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware is composed of a unified core monitoring engine and connectors that plug into platform-specific instrumentation software.

Upon startup, BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware automatically detects the environment and protocols available on the monitored servers, connects to the available hardware information sources and starts the monitoring of the hardware components.
Required Software
Most server manufacturers provide a hardware instrumentation agent. This agent is very often the only software able to retrieve the server hardware configuration and give information about its availability. With these agents, the manufacturers usually provide a specific console that is able to show the data collected by the agents. While these monitoring solutions are accurate for the servers they are intended for, they require IT administrators to use specific technologies for each different hardware manufacturer.

In order to match the accuracy of manufacturer's own consoles, BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware relies on the very same agents.

Platform Required software
IBM Netfinity IBM Director Agent
IBM xSeries IBM Director Agent
IBM BladeCenter IBM BladeCenter Management Module
IBM RS/6000 None (standard AIX tools)
IBM pSeries None (standard AIX tools)
IBM eServer p5 None (standard AIX tools)
DELL PowerEdge Dell OpenManage Server Administrator
HP ProLiant (Compaq) HP Insight Management Agents
HP Integrity, SuperDome HP Insight Management Agents
HP AlphaServer HP Insight Management Agents
HP NetServer HP Instant TopTools
HP 9000 None (standard HP-UX tools)
Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy Fujitsu-Siemens Serverview
NEC Express5800 NEC ESMPRO
Sun SPARC servers None (standard Solaris tools)
Sun Opteron servers Ipmitool & Lsiutil
Adaptec RAID Adaptec Storage Manager
DELL PERC RAID DELL OpenManage Storage Manager
LSI Logic RAID LSI Logic Power Console
Mylex RAID Mylex GAM Server
BMC Portal Environment
BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware is "BMC Software MarketZone Product" validated. It supports and is supported in the following environment:
  • BMC Portal 2.3.00
  • BMC Portal 2.4.00
  • BMC Portal 2.5.00
  • BMC Portal 2.6.00
  • BMC Portal 2.7.00
Previous versions of BMC Portal (including 1.x and 2.0.00) are not supported by the current version of BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware.

Power Consumption Features

  • Reporting the power consumption of each monitored system,
  • Showing the current instantaneous power drawn by a server,
  • Creating an Energy Usage report,
  • Exposing the amount of energy used by the server on a daily basis,

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Customer Testimonials

I was wondering why my server was running so slow and found out later that the RAID was just degraded !

One day, my 'high-availability' cluster crashed, just like any low-cost PC. We just forgot to replace failed disks in the array...

I was standing right in front of a business-critical server when it suddenly went off! We understood later that the problem simply came from the second redundant power supply that failed.

Thanks to BMC® Performance Manager Express for Hardware, forget these bad memories!


BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware has been validated as a BMC MarketZone product.
BMC® has chosen BMC® Performance Manager Express for Hardware by Sentry Software

BMC Software is replacing its own agent-less hardware monitoring product for BMC Portal with the one developed by Sentry Software. The product's name remains the same and customers who purchased BMC's version (2.0.00 and 2.1.00) or BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware can migrate for free to the product developed by Sentry Software.