Synergy with BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware

To benefit from a complete monitoring of NetApp Filers, BMC Performance Manager Express for NetApp Filers needs to be used in conjunction with BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware.

•BMC Performance Manager Express for NetApp® Filers monitors all of the performance metrics and usage statistics of your NetApp filers, such as file systems usage, processor utilization, per protocol traffic, etc. It continuously monitors the activity of each filer and is also able to build reports on past utilization statistics.

•BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware discovers all the physical components a filer, that is: controllers, disks, power supplies, fans, network and fiber ports, and reports hardware failures on these components. Additionally, it monitors the traffic on each network and fiber port.

The complete storage monitoring solution architecture is composed of the elements represented in the illustration below:

Storage monitoring solution architecture