• Customer Cases

  • Great ROI and everyone's happy – from administrators to the business managers: we're finally able to noticeably improve productivity whilst slashing solution costs.
  • At long last an effective LOG parsing solution.
  • Thanks Sentry Software for eliminating the need to juggle between all our diverse JMX application server types. This consolidated tool principle works great for us!
  • Amazing how easy it is to use – to be honest, I was rather skeptical about this solution when our BMC consultant proposed it… the trial removed all trace of disbelief. It's definitely recommendable and I look forward to more functionalities & tools.
  • Thanks to Monitoring Studio, your IT monitoring solution now covers all of our needs!

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BMC Performance Manager Express Monitoring Studio

BMC Performance Manager Express Monitoring Studio consolidates diverse monitoring needs with a single solution for the BMC Portal environment.

It enables the monitoring of regular or custom applications, devices and non-standard technologies for which there are no out-of-the-box solutions. It maximizes the availability of your applications and enables you to bring in critical business-related information within the Portal environment.

Specifically designed as a Performance Manager for the BMC Portal, it is to be installed on just one server, and the diverse monitoring tools are consequently available for all elements in the environment.

Features Quick List

BMC Performance Manager Express Monitoring Studio offers the following tools:

  • Remote LOG file parsing
  • Remote execution of commands and scripts
  • WBEM requests
  • SQL queries
  • HTTP requests
  • Java application polling (JMX)
  • SNMP polling
  • In depth monitoring through string searches and numeric value extraction

Business Challenge

Critical systems are provided by both packaged and custom applications. Application failures can account for up to 32% of unplanned system downtimes, so minimizing these unscheduled downtimes is essential to viability of businesses. Depending on the application and the business service it supports, often there are other metrics that need to be monitored. Managing the performance and availability of customized environments is complex, costly and time-consuming. Reducing costs, minimizing disruptions and maximizing efficiency are vital to improve the productivity of such environments.

Key Benefits

  • Maximize productivity through centralized monitoring
  • Drastically reduce the number of solutions
  • Eliminate time-consuming in-house development for custom needs
  • Rapidly configure the monitoring of diverse business-critical components
  • Monitor with ease any custom application or device on a Windows, UNIX or Linux platform using the protocols: HTTP, JDBC, JMX, SNMP, SSH, Telnet, WBEM and WMI

How It Works

Rapid set-up and no coding. Setting up the monitoring with any of the tools follows the same simple procedure :

  1. Select the tool and specify what is to be monitored and where it is located
  2. Enter connection and user credentials
  3. Set alert thresholds on parameters of the monitored instances
  4. Zoom in closer by setting-up advanced string searches and/or numeric value extractions that build graphs

Key Features

  • LOG file parsing: monitor and parse remote LOG files on Windows, UNIX and Linux
  • Remote command execution: remotely execute commands on Windows, UNIX and Linux systems and analyze their outputs
  • JMX polling: retrieve the values of MBean (Java) objects in JBoss, JOnAS, WebSphere, WebLogic application servers and standalone Java applications
  • SNMP polling: retrieve values of single OIDs and SNMP tables
  • SQL query execution: execute and analyze the results of SQL queries (Oracle Database Server, Microsoft SQL server, MySQL server)
  • WBEM requests: retrieve and analyze the results of WBEM and WMI queries
  • Web requests: send HTTP(S) requests and analyze the Web server responses
  • String searches and numeric value extractions: fine-tune the monitoring with powerful string searches and advanced numeric value extractions on the return output of all monitored instances
  • BMC Portal integration: all of this is done directly in BMC Portal's user interface. No development and no SDK!

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Supported Platforms

The solution runs on BMC Portal. It provides a set of tools that allow the user to interrogate and retrieve information from a managed element through a set of protocols. These protocols are in turn supported by an open-ended range of systems, hardware devices and software components.

Protocols used:

    HTTP/HTTPS

  • Any Web site and application or device attached to the network providing a Web-based interface

    • JDBC

  • Microsoft SQL Server 7, 2000 and 2005,
  • Oracle Database Server 8, 9i and 10g
  • MySQL Server

    • SSH

  • Any UNIX-like system with an SSHd daemon running

    • Telnet

  • Any UNIX-like system with a Telnet daemon running

    • JMX

  • JBoss 3.2.x, 4.x;
  • JOnAS,
  • WebLogic 8.x, 9.x;
  • WebSphere 5.x, 6.x and standalone JMX applications

    • SNMP

  • Any system or device attached to the network supporting SNMP protocol version 1 (server, storage device, network router, printer etc.)

    • WBEM

  • Any system or device supporting attached to the network supporting the WBEM over HTTP(S) protocol

    • WMI

  • Windows NT4 systems (requires the installation of the WMI layer);
  • Windows 2000 systems (requires the installation of the WMI layer);
  • Windows XP;
  • Windows Server 2003;
  • Windows Vista;
  • Windows Server 2008