Installation Guide

This chapter explains how to install and run BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware for BMC® Portal.

As BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware is a performance manager 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® 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 on one system in the Portal environment, you can add as many elements as you wish and BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware starts monitoring the hardware of all the connected systems within your BMC© Portal environment: status of the disks and the RAID controllers, temperature of the system, speed of the fans, etc.