When a network device is down, it's not difficult to identify the cause of the availability issue. But, to be able to solve poor application performance problems you must be able to understand the relationships and interaction between the network, users, applications, and systems. Through Application Centric Network Management (ACNM) we help you quickly identify where service degradation occurs in your enterprise by managing network and application performance resources. BMC® PATROL® DashBoard Enables you to manage your network proactively and improve its quality of service (QoS), auto-discovers your network and automatically sets thresholds, and begins collecting relevant data to allow you to locate network problems. BMC® PATROL® Reporting for Networks Offers an open, scalable, and comprehensive solution that can help you create meaningful reports about SLAs, including application response time and network activity for business users, IT managers, network managers, and network analysts. BMC® PATROL® Visualis Fault Manager Offers filtering to simplify identification and monitoring of business applications and processes and to relate network components to specific services or applications, and uses graphical algorithms to let network managers view network outages. BMC® PATROL® Visualis Flows Add On for Fault Manager Gathers performance data from network device for storage and display on the IS topology, and correlates data-flow information with application performance information measured from any installed PATROL Knowledge Module. By taking a proactive network management approach, BMC Software can help you: Increase performance Increase availability – Eliminate IT slowdowns and maximize application performance while increasing customer satisfaction Plan ahead – Perform efficient capacity planning by anticipating the need for additional devices, bandwidth and memory Avoid service degradation – View your infrastructure's entire topology, the performance of your information system and data flows within it Increase service reporting capabilities Increase information-gathering abilities – Generate reports from information gathered from infrastructure devices such as routers, LAN switches and probes, as well as from all of their physical and logical interfaces Customize information – Create reports that allow network end users, network specialists, and corporate decision makers see how the network meets their expectations Increase measurable results – Publish user-oriented Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that allow service providers to estimate the quality of the network service delivered