• Key Benefits

  • Make sure all critical applications are up and runningImprove Availability
  • Stop wasting time developing custom monitoring modules for your custom applicationsScale Staff
  • Cover all applications, including custom in-house applications and non-standard technologyReduce Risk
  • Extract business metrics out of the applications for further analysisIncrease Business Value

Applications Monitoring

Reduce costs: avoid wasting time in custom developments of built-in monitoring solutions.

While highly critical to their business, custom applications are the weakest point in IT. 71% of surveyed companies don't even try to monitor such applications. Our solution provides unprecedented visibility into your business specific applications.

Today, IT facility supporting critical business services are typically composed of numerous off-the-shelf software applications, and also run some custom-built solutions. For IT administrators, the ability to effectively manage and monitor these applications has become critical as they are increasingly prevalent and critical to achieving business outcomes.

In order to extend monitoring capabilities to your entire software applications, Sentry Software Application Monitoring Solutions covers not only the IT infrastructure, but also the applications critical to the business; and brings monitoring and diagnosis data to your BMC environment. 

This PATROL® Knowledge Module® allows the monitoring of the Job Scheduling system to be integrated into the enterprise systems management environment. Problems can be quickly identified and the appropriate corrective action taken via a consistent, easy to use interface.


Features

  • Parse files, search for strings and perform numeric value extractions on the return output of all monitored instances
  • Execute commands and scripts
  • Make SQL and WBEM queries, and HTTP requests
  • Monitor file systems, folders, processes, Windows events, services, and performance counters
  • Monitor the overall health, errors, performance and utilization of your Microsoft SharePoint environment
  • Benefit from a built-in solution that brings advanced performance metrics and key statistics related to Microsoft search engines content into your BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management environment.

Example of typical application monitoring project

Step Competitor (develops a custom monitoring solution for each custom application) BMC+Sentry (Configure Monitoring Studio to monitor each custom application) 
Solution specifications 5 days 5 days
Development 25 days 1 day (configuration)
Packaging 2 days -
Testing 5 days 1 day
Debugging 5 days -
Packaging 1 day -
Deployment 3 days 0.5 day
TOTAL 46 days 7.5 days