The Connectors

Each connector is an “.hdf” file that is dedicated to one source of hardware information. Each connector file describes how BPM Express for Hardware connects to the available hardware information source and what information is available through this source. For example, SEN_HW_EMCDiskArray.hdf describes how to get information from the EMC Disk Arrays and then monitor the array.

An “.hdf” file can tell the BPM Express for Hardware engine to do the following actions:

●Query a SNMP agent (get, get next, and tables)

●Execute a WBEM query (using WMI for Windows and the Pegasus implementation of WBEM for Linux)

●Execute an OS command (using TELNET and SSH)

Each “.hdf” file uses a mix of these possible actions with some computing capabilities to make BPM Express for Hardware gather useful data in a given hardware information source.

The “.hdf” files are deployed on the RSM at %RSM_HOME%\RSMxx\server\rsm\tmp\deploy\SentrySoftware-HardwareSentry-solution-<version>.par-native. These files released by Sentry Software are encrypted and therefore cannot be updated or modified by the end-user.