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BMC Performance Manager Express for Microsoft® Search

Search engines are becoming more and more pervasive in today’s IT infrastructures. Their relevance and availability must be ensured and maintained to guarantee access to documents and data and optimize document management.

BMC Performance Manager Express for Microsoft® Search monitors the availability, system resources utilization, and other key performance metrics (e.g., index size, word count, documents crawls, content gatherer) for the following Microsoft® Search products:

  • Windows® Indexing Service
  • Windows® Desktop Search
  • Windows® Search

Key Benefits

  • Support for all Microsoft® search engines
  • Make sure documents info is accessible across the organization
  • Ensure document indexes consistency
  • Optimize system resources dedicated to search engines
  • Provides visibility on the internal functioning/gears/mechanism (activity statistics, utilization)

Features Quick List

  • Automatically discovers the Microsoft® search engines installed on the system (configuration, catalogs, etc.)
  • Monitors system resources consumed by search engine (gatherer, crawls, indexing, queries)
  • Monitors the activity of the gatherer, indexer, interactions with the system (file system notifications, etc.)
  • Automatically detects errors and failures and advanced diagnosis
  • Let setup queries to check the integrity, consistency and accuracy of the catalogs

BMC Portal Environment

BMC Performance Manager Express for Microsoft Search is "BMC Software MarketZone Product" validated. It supports and is supported in the following environment:

  • BMC Portal 2.3.00
  • BMC Portal 2.4.00
  • BMC Portal 2.5.00
  • BMC Portal 2.6.00
  • BMC Portal 2.7.00

Previous versions of BMC Portal (including 1.x and 2.0.00) are not supported by the current version of BMC Performance Manager Express for Microsoft Search.