Getting Started

While out-of-the-box BMC Software monitoring solutions are available for the most common applications, companies often also need to use various custom or in-house applications.

Until recently, monitoring these custom applications, often critical, as they are intrinsically linked to the business, was feasible only through a custom PATROL KM. Developing a PATROL KM, although not an impossible task, inevitably involves a lot of programming, project management, release and maintenance management skills, all of which are time and resource-intensive.

Monitoring Studio KM for PATROL allows you to set up the monitoring, without any coding, of almost any application, device or IT component for which there is no out-of-the-box monitoring solution available. It also enables you to consolidate diverse monitoring needs through a single solution.

In a few clicks, and thanks to intuitive wizards, you can cover up to 100% of your critical applications within your BMC Software monitoring environment.

This chapter helps you understand how Monitoring Studio KM for PATROL works and what you can do with it. It gives you a quick glimpse of the installation and integration process, and a basic guideline on how to set-up the monitoring of your applications with Monitoring Studio.

Please note that although this section briefly gives goes over the installation procedure, it remains essential to refer to the Installation Guide to ensure a correct installation of the product.