Connector Monitoring

When a BPM Express for Hardware connector has been detected as applicable to the current platform, a corresponding instance is created under Infrastructure > Element > Hardware (<platform>) > Detected Connectors and its status is monitored regularly to ensure that the underlying technology is still available.

Example

BPM Express for Hardware is running on a Dell PowerEdge server with Dell OpenManage Server Administrator.

▪Upon startup, BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware detects Dell OpenManage Server Administrator and starts using the corresponding connector to discover the server hardware configuration and monitor the discovered devices.

▪BPM Express for Hardware creates an icon representing the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator connector.

▪Based on the collection interval configured, its Status parameter is updated.

▪If, for some reason, the Dell agent stops working, an alarm is raised on the Status parameter and all the components discovered and monitored through this connector go off-line.

This connector monitoring mechanism helps administrators detect hardware agent failures. It provides a higher monitoring accuracy by not confusing errors encountered by devices with errors caused due to failure of the monitoring tool. The parameters for the connector monitoring class are:

●Test Report: This parameter describes the tests run to evaluate the availability of the technologies used by this connector to monitor the system.

●Status: This parameter displays the overall status of the connector and it is this parameter that triggers the alerts if any of the parameters of the class breach their thresholds.