User Guide

BMC Performance Manager Express for EMC Disk Arrays monitors all of the performance metrics and usage statistics of your EMC disk arrays, such as file disk space usage, storage controller utilization, I/Os on the disks/controllers/volumes, etc. It continuously monitors the activity of each array and is also able to build reports on past utilization statistics.

To setup a complete monitoring of the array, we strongly recommend you to also use BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware that covers all the physical aspect of the EMC disk arrays (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 Performance Manager Express for EMC Disk Arrays by Sentry Software solution.

BMC Performance Manager Express for EMC Disk Arrays 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 Performance Manager Express for EMC Disk Arrays, 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.