User Guide

BMC Performance Manager Express for NetApp Filers monitors all of the performance metrics and usage statistics of your NetApp filers, such as filesystems 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.

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 the NetApp filers (status of the disks, ports, temperature, power supplies, power consumption, etc).

This chapter explains how to use each monitoring tool i.e. a separate application class within the BMC PM Express for NetApp Filers by Sentry Software solution.

BMC Performance Manager Express for NetApp Filers by Sentry Software is a Performance Manager specifically designed for BMC Portal; consequently, it uses the same common features and procedures of BMC® Portal. This document assumes that the user knows how to use the Portal and therefore explains procedures only related to BMC PM Express for NetApp Filers by Sentry Software, and not on how to add Elements, Element Profiles etc. Please refer to the BMC Portal documentation for details on how to use the Portal.