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- Hardware Monitoring by Sentry SoftwarePDF Datasheet (1.30MB)
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Key Benefits
- Detect hardware failures in your serversShorter time-to-repair, better uptime
- Avoid manufacturer-specific consolesLess complexity
- One single pane of glass for all your serversVisibility on 100% of your IT
- Vendor-agnostic solution that fully integrates within the BMC frameworkShorter time to implement BSM
- Report on the energy usage of your ITManage your electricity demand
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Misconception
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Warning! Even though BMC Performance Manager for Servers monitors operating systems and reports how they allocate the hardware resources to the applications, it does not report when a disk crashes or the temperature goes too high.
Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL or BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware is the hardware monitoring solution that every PATROL or BMC Portal customer should rely on to make sure that the underlying hardware components are available and running smoothly.
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Hardware Monitoring
Single Monitoring View: Consolidate the monitoring of all vendors for a comprehensive and efficient diagnosis
Give yourself peace of mind and relieve the pressure of keeping your IT environment up and running by knowing that your data center is closely monitored even when you're not in the same room.
Sentry Software's hardware monitoring solution brings critical hardware information into your BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management environment for your diverse servers and platforms. It enables an easy and cost-effective centralized management of hardware in a heterogeneous infrastructure through a single solution.
Available as agent-based and agent-less products, Sentry Software’s innovative proactive solutions bring critical hardware information into your BMC PATROL and BMC Portal frameworks for diverse servers. It monitors the hardware of varied server brands/platforms in your heterogeneous infrastructure. No configuration, automatic detection and centralized monitoring management of all hardware components help maximize the performance and productivity of your heterogeneous infrastructure, enabling you to build a strong, reliable foundation to base your business-critical systems on.
Critical in virtualized environments
Virtualization is a technology that all IT departments start leveraging to optimize the utilization of their infrastructure and reduce the costs of new applications. However, it therefore represents a single point of failure. That’s why hardware monitoring is getting even more critical in virtualized environments.
Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL and BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware are versatile, rock-solid hardware monitoring solutions that help align your IT with ITIL strategies, and build a solid foundation for BSM that links your IT goals with those of your business!
Features
- Disks: RAID controllers, hard disks, RAIDs (failure prediction, availability of the volumes, etc.).
- Environment: temperature, internal voltages, power supplies, fans.
- Critical components: processors, memory modules (ECC errors, failure prediction, etc.).
- Network links: network adapters, link loss, negotiated speed, data traffic, bandwidth utilization. It produces a report of the amount of data that came in or went out of each network link, on a daily or hourly basis.
The solution provides details about each monitored component in order to facilitate its replacement should a failure occurs (vendor, model, serial number, part number, FRU number, location in the chassis).
It also offers statistic and reporting resources:
- Comprehensive inventory of the physical components of the monitored server.
- Convenient reports detailing the capacity of the monitored server: number of physical CPUs, amount of memory, size of disks and volumes.
Both agent-based and agent-less products are entirely automatic: no configuration required. Only provide the credentials to access the hardware instrumentation layers.
- Support for blade servers and virtual servers.
- Available agent-based and agent-less.
Supported Platforms and OS
| Cisco | Dell | HP | IBM |
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| Sun | NEC | Fujitsu | Hitachi |
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