Getting Started

BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware enables administrators to monitor the hardware of all their diverse servers on BMC© Portal. This is a single performance manager (PM) that is able to monitor the hardware of different server brands: IBM®, HP®, DELL®, Sun Microsystems®, NEC®, Fujitsu-Siemens® and many others.

As this PM is specifically designed for the BMC Portal environment, it uses the Portal’s web-based interface and features for installing, managing and monitoring your Information Technology (IT) infrastructure. The full integration with BMC Performance Manager Portal provides a single customizable entry point for data from multiple sources and a single view that enables you to monitor the health and performance of your infrastructure.

Once installed, BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware requires no configuration and automatically detects the environment and starts monitoring the hardware: status of the disks and the RAID controllers, temperature of the system, speed of the fans, power supplies, network interfaces etc.

For convenience, BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware is called BPM Express for Hardware within the product documentation (online and PDF formats)