An air-traffic control system can come to a stand-still because of a network card failure. A broken RAID can take a database to its knees. Data corruption in an accounting system can occur because of a flaky memory module. As sophisticated your IT infrastructure has become, it still relies on a myriad of electronic components. Detecting and isolating hardware failures are key points to ensure that your systems deliver the required level of service.
However, such task proved to be a complex, time-consuming and expensive one because IT departments traditionally relied on the monitoring tools provided by the server manufacturers: such tools are very specific to each type of machine; they don’t integrate with other management solutions; they offer a very partial picture of the infrastructure.
Sentry Software’s hardware monitoring solution brings critical hardware information into your BMC Performance Manager environment for your diverse servers and platforms. It enables an easy and cost-effective centralized management of hardware in a heterogeneous infrastructure through a single solution.
Available as agent-based and agent-less products, Sentry Software’s innovative proactive solutions bring critical hardware information into your BMC® PATROL and BMC Portal frameworks for diverse servers. It monitors the hardware of varied server brands/platforms in your heterogeneous infrastructure.No configuration, automatic detection and centralized monitoring management of all hardware components help maximize the performance and productivity of your heterogeneous infrastructure, enabling you to build a strong, reliable foundation to base your business-critical systems on.
Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL® and BMC® Performance Manager Express for Hardware are versatile, rock-solid hardware monitoring solutions that help align your IT with ITIL strategies, and build a solid foundation for BSM that links your IT goals with those of your business!
Virtualization is a technology that all IT departments start leveraging to optimize the utilization of their infrastructure and reduce the costs of new applications. However, the one single physical machine hosting a dozen virtual systems represents a single point of failure even more critical. A hardware failure on such servers can cause down time on a dozen separate applications. That’s why hardware monitoring is getting even more critical in virtualized environments.
Warning! BMC Performance Manager for Servers monitors the operating system (Windows, Linux and UNIX). It reports how the operating system is able to allocate the hardware resources to the applications (processor time, memory, network bandwidth and various standard OS services like authentication, filesystems, etc.). BMC Performance Manager for Servers will not report when a disk crashes or the temperature goes too high. Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL® or BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware is the hardware monitoring solution that every PATROL® or BMC Portal customer should rely on to make sure that the underlying hardware components are available and running smoothly.
BMC® Performance Manager for Servers monitors the operating system (Windows, Linux and UNIX). It reports how the operating system is able to allocate the hardware resources to the applications (processor time, memory, network bandwidth and various standard OS services like authentication, filesystems, etc.). BMC® Performance Manager for Hardware goes one step deeper by adding sharp and critical information to the global picture provided by BMC® Performance Manager for Servers.
Sentry Software’s hardware monitoring solution is the hardware monitoring solution that every BMC® Performance Manager customer should rely on to make sure that the underlying hardware components are available and running smoothly. Actually, the solution is able to trigger an alarm when a disk crashes or when the temperature of a server reaches a critical level. BMC® Performance Manager for Hardware also reports accurate and helpful information on the energy consumed by hardware components to enable network administrators to better understand which component in the IT infrastructure is consuming the most either by collecting data provided by the device itself or by estimating the power consumption of a server, based on its internal components.
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