BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware by Sentry Software

Business Challenge

A simple hardware error can cause a sophisticated business-critical system to crash. Most servers have their native hardware monitoring tools, but the integration of this information into a centralized monitoring framework is challenging as administrators have to juggle with separate tools specific to each brand/platform. This is complex, time-consuming and expensive to maintain.

Business Need

• Maximize server uptime and optimize performance
• Centralize monitoring of hardware health and availability
• Identify and resolve problems faster
• Lower total-cost-of-ownership

Our Solution

BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware brings critical hardware information into your BMC Portal environment for all your diverse server brands. It enables an easy and cost-effective centralized management of hardware in a heterogeneous infrastructure through a single solution. The solution automatically detects all hardware components and monitors the following devices:

• Processors, memory modules, network cards
• Temperatures, voltages
• Fans, power supplies, power consumption
• Disk controllers, SCSI controllers, ATA/IDE controllers, physical disks, RAIDs
• Blade servers

Key Features & Benefits

• Provides one solution for all servers
• Maximizes server uptime
• Automatically detects hardware components - no configuration required
• Provides advanced diagnostics of errors and predictive analytics
• Enables instant problem identification and improves mean time to repair
• Provides only useful data
• Measures server power consumption
• Eliminates need for PATROL agents

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