BMC Performance Manager For Servers vs. Monitoring Studio

Since the PATROL Agent, part of BMC Performance Manager for Servers, is a requirement in order to install and use Monitoring Studio KM for PATROL, Monitoring Studio represents an additional cost of license. Any organization that is considering the monitoring of a custom application of any IT component for which no out-of-the-box monitoring solution already exist will have to evaluate the following equation:

Whenever this equation is true, the purchase of Monitoring Studio actually turns out to be an economically viable. The biggest problem relies in the evaluation of the cost of a given application failure as well as its probability (in a 3-year period for example).