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Microsoft® Search KM for PATROL

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.

The Microsoft® Search KM for PATROL 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

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Full integration with the BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management framework

  • Full support for all PATROL Consoles
  • PATROL Central (Windows and Web Editions)
  • PATROL Configuration Manager (PCM)
  • BMC Portal (through integration PAR file)
  • BMC Event Manager
  • BMC Service Impact Manager
  • BMC Reporting
  • BMC ProActiveNet Analytics

PATROL Infrastructure

Microsoft® Search KM for PATROL is "BMC Software MarketZone Product" certified. It supports and is supported by the following components in the PATROL framework:

    Monitoring:

  • PATROL Agent (required) - 3.4.11, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7

    Viewing:

  • PATROL Classic Console - 3.4.11, 3.5, 3.6
  • PATROL Central - Windows Edition - 7.2+
  • PATROL Central - Web Edition - 7.2+

    PATROL Infrastructure:

  • Installation Utility (Thorium) - 7.5.51 and greater
  • PATROL Distribution Server
  • PATROL Configuration Manager - 1.4+
  • Console Server - 7.2+