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Monitoring Studio vs BMC Performance Manager for Servers
The table below recapitulates the monitoring features usually required in order to monitor a custom application or any IT component for which no standard monitoring solution already exists. The table shows whether a feature is available in each solution and its capability if present.
Features comparison between BMC Performance Manager for Servers and Monitoring Studio
As the table clearly shows, Monitoring Studio provides a much more complete feature set regarding standard needs in order to monitor a custom application. On the other hand, the purpose of the BMC Performance Manager for Servers solution is to ensure that the underlying operating system (Windows, UNIX, Linux or OpenVMS) is functioning properly and is not meant to provide a simple way to monitor anything running on this operating system. What BMC Performance Manager for Servers does offer however is the ability to develop a custom monitoring solution using PSL.
This is a completely different task that is covered in the Monitoring Studio vs. Development of a Custom Solution section.
Monitoring Studio vs. Development of a Custom Solution
The table below recapitulates the monitoring features usually required in order to monitor a custom application or any IT component for which no standard monitoring solution already exist. The table shows whether a feature is available in each solution and its capability if present.
Features comparison between a custom KM and Monitoring Studio
The above table indicates that every monitoring feature in BMC Performance Manager Monitoring Studio can be present and more powerful in a custom KM…as long as you accept all the hidden costs, time taken and resource allocation required for custom development, the possibilities are endless. From a pure features point of view and without taking into account the time taken to develop it, a custom KM could certainly have more (or less) capabilities than Monitoring Studio KM. A custom KM is only what you make it. The fact that one custom KM with so many features may take 1 year to develop is not shown in this table.
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