From the Lab
Hardware monitoring is more important than ever!
may 2, 2011
According to a recent article, reliability of IT hardware components is, to a certain extent, sacrificed on the altar of performance and return rates are steadily growing. Based on a 500 sales sample of various manufacturer hardware components, the study reports the following stats:
| Hardware components | Return rate per year (based on 2010/2011 sales) |
| RAM | 5.4% to 20.2% |
| Power Supply | 2.9% to 14.8% |
| Hard drives | 4% to 6.7% |
Detecting and isolating hardware failures are key points to ensure that your systems deliver the required level of service. Hardware monitoring is more important than ever!
Hardware Sentry KM monitors the electronic components in your servers: processors, adapters, modules, fans, power supplies, etc. This solution adds hardware inventory, fault detection, performance monitoring and energy consumption reports in BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management for all server manufacturers: DELL, HP, IBM, Sun, Fujitsu, NEC running UNIX, Linux, Windows or VMWare.
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