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Hardware Monitoring

The Sentry Software Solution

Single Monitoring View: Consolidate the monitoring of all vendors for a comprehensive and efficient diagnosis

20 hardware failures for 100 servers every year: 90% of customers admit that 20% of hardware failures don’t make it to the NOC

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.

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, it therefore represents a single point of failure. That’s why hardware monitoring is getting even more critical in virtualized environments.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!

Misconception

Warning! Even though BMC Performance Manager for Servers monitors operating systems and reports how they allocate the hardware resources to the applications, it does 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.

Features

The solution provides details about each monitored component in order to facilitate its replacement should a failure occurs (vendor, model, serial number, part number, FRU number, location in the chassis).
It also offers statistic and reporting resources:

Both agent-based and agent-less products are entirely automatic: no configuration required. Only provide the credentials to access the hardware instrumentation layers.

Supported Platforms and Operating Systems

  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux
  • VMWare
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux
  • HP-UX
  • True64
  • OpenVMS
  • WMWare
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux
  • VMWare
  • AIX
  • Solaris
  • Linux
  • WMWare
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux
  • VMWare
  • Solaris

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 Key Benefits

  • Detect hardware failures in your servers Shorter time-to-repair, better uptime
  • Avoid manufacturer-specific consoles Less complexity
  • One single pane of glass for all your servers Visibility on 100% of your IT
  • Vendor-agnostic solution that fully integrates within the BMC framework Shorter time to implement BSM
  • Report on the energy usage of your IT Manage your electricity demand

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