Situation Overview

In today’s tough business environment, the use of custom or non-standard applications is a common way to gain an edge over competitors. As these applications are often intrinsically linked to critical business services, it is vital to monitor their health and availability just as you would do for any standard packaged application. In addition, it is often essential to monitor certain basic system elements or processes, monitor and analyze files, folders, databases, or other diverse infrastructure components.

The difficulty

Monitoring, and managing the monitoring of diverse components, applications, processes and technologies is easier said than done. The vast range of applications, solutions, technologies and platforms that an IT environment is composed of makes the monitoring coverage a real challenge. The higher the monitoring coverage, the more secure and efficient is the IT environment and its linked business-services. The stakes are high but the harsh reality is that every organization faces either crunches and/or restraints whether budgetary, time-related or human-resources related. Constraints translate into making choices, and the net result often leads to gaping holes in the monitoring coverage. Generally, it is custom applications and non standard technologies that find themselves in these “holes” as they the ones often left un-monitored owing to the difficulty in finding the right solutions within reasonable costs.

Challenges easily overcome by BMC Performance Manager Monitoring Studio

Effective monitoring management of in-house applications, or setting-up custom “watches” on critical components requires an easy-to-use, flexible, scalable and integrated solution. This solution should ideally be able to consolidate several monitoring needs and be able to automate systems management such as through-recovery actions, and reduce trouble-shooting time by clearly identifying problem areas so that administrators can devote more time to strategic tasks.

BMC Performance Manager Monitoring Studio is such a solution. It enables the monitoring of any custom application, device or IT components for which there is no out-of-the-box monitoring solution available on the market AND it helps consolidate diverse monitoring needs within just one solution. It is a multi-platform solution with which you can monitor diverse applications and technologies. This results in fewer tools, fewer consoles, and lesser monitoring management issues and mainly, no more “holes” in your monitoring coverage.