Understanding BPM Express for Hardware within the Portal environment

Here’s an overview of the basic outline of BPM Express for Hardware within BMC© Performance Manager Portal.

The environment

•The BMC© Portal, is composed of a database, an application server, and a web server, and provides the access point for its utilities and modules.

•The BMC© Performance Manager Portal extends the features in the Portal, enabling you to leverage both agent-less technologies and the PATROL agent to monitor the availability and performance of your business infrastructure.

•BPM Express for Hardware is a based on agent-less technology, is designed for the Portal and uses the same web-based interface and Portal features common to all modules.

The interaction

•BPM Express for Hardware is leveraged by the BPM Portal module that uses Remote Service Monitors (RSMs) to collect metrics about your infrastructure.

•An RSM is a computer on which you have installed the RSM program. Depending on the size of your environment, you can implement one or many RSMs. To know what to monitor on the specified infrastructure elements, the RSM uses PMs and therefore for hardware monitoring, it banks on the BPM Express for Hardware.

•All Performance Managers, and the application classes that they contain, are installed on the Portal, and saved in the Portal database when you select them from an installation CD or when you import them via the Portal user interface. Performance Managers that are installed on the Portal are available to all users on the Portal who have the appropriate user permissions.

The figure below shows the interaction between BPM Express for Hardware and the Portal:

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Understanding BPM Express for Hardware within the Portal environment

Interaction between the PM and the Portal

The above given data and diagram show you how remote monitoring of your hardware is possible on the Portal. Installation of BPM Express for Hardware on just one computer is sufficient for monitoring a heterogeneous infrastructure, as long as the vendor-specific hardware agents are installed on every managed element.