How it Works

BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware is a PM that enables BMC Portal to monitor system hardware (disk status, temperatures, CPU, power supplies etc). It gathers hardware information from different sources such as manufacturer-specific agents, standard management technologies, SNMP, WBEM, etc., and displays this information within the Portal environment.

In order to work properly, BPM Express for Hardware needs certain hardware information sources to be available. Depending on the platform, it relies on the manufacturer-specific instrumentation layer and/or on standard management technology such as WBEM or SNMP. On startup, BPM Express for Hardware automatically detects which hardware information source is available and then uses this to poll data on the hardware health of the computer. BPM Express for Hardware collects such data from each server and reports it in your Portal console.

In the example below, BPM Express for Hardware leverages the IBM Director and MIB-2 Standard SNMP Agents to monitor an IBM Server running on Windows. While the IBM Director Agent shows the enclosure model, processors, memory modules, fans, power supplies, voltage sensors, temperature sensors, disk controllers, and physical and logical disks; the MIB-2 Standard SNMP Agent provides information about the network cards.

MonitoringIBMServers

Monitoring an IBM Server running Windows