Overview

BMC Performance Manager Express for NetApp Filers is an agent-less Performance Manager for the BMC Portal environment. It allows you to automatically discover and monitor every aspect of the NetApp filers, from the general health of the filer to the performance of the LUNs and from the file systems space usage to the mirroring and snapshots mechanisms latency; and to consolidate diverse monitoring needs within the Portal framework through a single solution.

To setup a complete monitoring of the filer, we strongly recommend you to also use BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware that covers all the physical aspect of NetApp filers (status of the disks, ports, temperature, power supplies, power consumption, etc).

Being a Performance Manager specifically designed for BMC Portal, BMC Performance Manager Express for NetApp Filers uses the Portal’s web-based interface and features for installing, managing and monitoring your infrastructure.

For convenience, the product may be called NetApp Filers Express within the product documentation and online help.