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BMC Performance Manager Express for SharePoint enables administrators to monitor SharePoint infrastructures. Once installed, it requires no configuration and automatically detects the environment and starts monitoring the SharePoint environment: IIS metrics, Windows services and event logs, virtual servers and applications.
This chapter explains how to use BMC Performance Manager Express for SharePoint. This guide details all the available features, and explains how the monitoring functions for the different SharePoint components.
Prerequisites
| 1. | BMC Performance Manager Express for SharePoint is a Performance Manager designed for BMC Portal and therefore needs to be installed within the BMC Portal environment. |
| 2. | As this is an agent-less performance manager for the web-based BMC Performance Manager Portal, it can be installed on just one managed element equipped with the Portal. |
| 3. | Minimum version of BMC Portal should be 2.5.00. |
| 4. | The RSM program should be installed on a Windows system (it can be the same as the Portal) |
| 5. | Install the vendor-specific instrumentation agents or system management tools on the managed elements to be monitored prior to installing the PM. |
 | Login and password used in Portal must also grant access to all SharePoint sites. |
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