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From the Lab | Sentry Software http://www.sentrysoftware.com/ Sentry Software news, projects in progress, expected releases, features in development, beta versions... en Copyright sentrysoftware.com 0054 25 jan 2012 18:33 icon-beta.png IBM SVC KM for PATROL: Beta Version http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0054_ibmsvc-km-beta.asp Our development team has put the final touch to our new monitoring solution for IBM SVC... 0053 12 jan 2012 17:24 icon-nobeta.png Event: Hitachi Information Forum in Paris, France http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0053_hitachi-forum.asp Sentry Software participates in the Hitachi Information Forum on Jan 24, 2012 in Paris, France... 0052 28 dec 2011 17:18 icon-release.png Release: Storage Automation http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0052_baoaa-emc-hitachi.asp The latest version of our Storage Automation solution includes updated Adapters for EMC and Hitachi storage devices... 0051 28 dec 2011 16:31 icon-release.png New Product: BMC Atrium Orchestrator Application Adapter for IBM DS6000, DS8000 Series http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0051_baoaa-for-ibm68.asp Sentry Software releases a new automation adapter that fully integrate with BMC Atrium Orchestrator to manage IBM DS6000, DS8000 Series... 0050 9 dec 2011 15:12 icon-nobeta.png Consolidated SAN Monitoring in BPPM http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0050_san-monitoring-bppm.asp Gain visibility into the performance of your entire infrastructure by extending the capabilities of BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management to multi-vendor hardware, storage, backup, high availability... 0049 30 nov 2011 16:34 icon-release.png Now Available! Unified and Standardized High Availability and Backup Monitoring Solutions http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0049_unified-otlproducts.asp Sentry Software is releasing its new high availability and backup monitoring solutions, composed of a selection of former OTL products... 0048 14 oct 2011 17:15 icon-release.png Former OTL products now available to download http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0048_otlproducts-available.asp The key-asset products of OTL Software recently acquired by Sentry Software are now available to download... 0047 4 oct 2011 16:26 icon-nobeta.png A wider range of products! http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0047_otl-acquired-assets.asp Sentry Software is proud to announce that the company has successfully acquired key-assets of OTL Software Limited in a buyout that includes the intellectual property and trade name of main products... 0046 15 sep 2011 10:45 icon-nobeta.png Our Hitachi VSP System finally arrived! http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0046_Hitachi-VSP-System.asp Hitachi finally shipped the VSP System we ordered months ago and it’s now sitting here in its full glory in our lab, next to our EMC Symmetrix V-Max system... 0045 13 sep 2011 11:16 icon-nobeta.png BPPM Compatibility Enhancements http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0045_BPPM-Compatibility-Enhancements.asp Sentry is updating all of its KMs to leverage the "Instance-to-Device mapping" feature available in the versions 8.6.02 and higher of BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management... 0044 9 sep 2011 14:13 icon-nobeta.png New Development: IBM DS6000, DS8000 Series Adapter for BMC Atrium Orchestrator http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0044_Automation-for-IBMDS68.asp A new BMC Atrium Orchestrator Application Adapter is being developed for IBM DS6000, DS8000 Series... 0043 5 aug 2011 15:05 icon-nobeta.png Service Automation: First Results! http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0043_BPPM-BAO-prototype.asp Our development team is currently testing a prototype that mixes BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management (BPPM) and BMC Atrium Orchestrator (BAO) to monitor the workload of the Web farm and... 0042 4 jul 2011 10:45 icon-release.png Release: BMC Atrium Orchestrator Application Adapter for EMC Storage 1.0.15 http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0042_BAO-EMC-1015.asp Sentry Software is releasing its latest version of BMC Atrium Orchestrator Application Adapter for EMC Storage. This adapter is part of the Storage Automation Solution designed to... 0041 29 jun 2011 10:38 icon-nobeta.png Service Automation applied to Green IT http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0041_Automation-GreenIT.asp Adapting the number of nodes in a server farm based on the workload: A prototype of Service Automation applied to Green IT... 0040 13 jun 2011 12:03 icon-nobeta.png Coming Soon: IBM SVC Monitoring Solution http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0040_ibm-svc-km.asp The future IBM SVC KM for PATROL will monitor the availability, performance and capacity utilization of IBM SVC. It will support the version 4.3.x, 5.1.x and 6.1.x of the IBM SVC operating system (EOS). The KM will automatically discover... 0039 23 may 2011 14:03 icon-release.png Release: Storage Monitoring Solution http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0039_storage-monitoring-may-release.asp The latest versions of our Storage Monitoring Solution include updated Knowledge Modules that offer full support of BMC ProactiveNet Performance Manager (BPPM 8.5) and provide facilitated integration with BMC Portal... 0038 17 may 2011 17:54 icon-release.png Release: Hardware Monitoring Solution http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0038_hardware-monitoring-may-release.asp Sentry Software is releasing its latest version of Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL and its agent-less version BMC Performance Manager Express for Hardware to correct minor problems and provide several helpful enhancements... 0037 17 may 2011 10:34 icon-nobeta.png BPPM Full Compatibility http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0037_bppm-support.asp Sticking to the latest and greatest: Sentry revs most of its products to ensure full support for BPPM 8.6 and BMC Portal 2.9... 0036 2 may 2011 10:15 icon-nobeta.png Hardware monitoring is more important than ever! http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0036_hardwarefailures.asp 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... 0035 19 apr 2011 10:35 icon-release.png New Solution: Storage Automation http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0035_automation.asp Sentry Software releases two new automation solutions that fully integrate with BMC Atrium Orchestration to manage respectively EMC and Hitachi Storage environment.... 0034 4 mar 2011 14:25 icon-release.png Release: SharePoint Monitoring Products http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0034_sharepoint.asp Our SharePoint Monitoring tools are now fully compatible with SharePoint 2010 and Windows Server 2008, and support the 64bits version of Windows... 0033 4 mar 2011 10:54 icon-release.png Release: Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 1.7.00 http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0033_hardware1700.asp Combined Support for Cisco UCS and EMC takes Hardware Sentry KM to the Cloud Computing Age... 0032 3 mar 2011 15:38 icon-release.png New products: IBM and Hitachi Storage Monitoring http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0032_hitachi-ibm.asp Sentry Software expands its Storage Monitoring portfolio with new products to monitor Hitachi and IBM Disk Arrays... 0031 25 feb 2011 14:07 icon-nobeta.png Hitachi BladeSymphony servers are now supported http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0031_hitachi-bladesymphony.asp The soon-to-be-released Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 1.7.00 now monitors Hitachi BladeSymphony servers. It reports on... 0030 18 jan 2011 16:56 icon-nobeta.png Screenshots of BMC Atrium Orchestrator Application Adapter for Hitachi Storage http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0030_hitachi-orchestrator.asp Two exciting screenshots that illustrate two typical storage automation scenarios... 0029 13 dec 2010 10:43 icon-beta.png Hitachi Disk Arrays Monitoring: Beta Versions http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0029_hitachibeta.asp We now invite you to download our latest agent-base or agent-less beta version... 0028 1 dec 2010 13:02 icon-nobeta.png Too many alerts in Hardware Sentry: we heard you! http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0028_hardware.asp Some of our users were complaining about the excessive sensitivity of the KM when an underlying instrumentation layer intermittently stoped responding... 0027 30 nov 2010 16:31 icon-nobeta.png SharePoint Monitoring: new features in the pipeline http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0027_sharepoint.asp Sentry Software will soon be releasing a new version of its SharePoint Monitoring products:: learn more about new features, improvements and fixed issues... 0026 26 nov 2010 15:20 icon-nobeta.png IBM Data Storage Monitoring Application Classes http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0026_ibmdatastorage.asp This section lists the application classes we currently develop for our IBM DS monitoring product... 0025 25 nov 2010 13:28 icon-nobeta.png Hitachi Disk Arrays Monitoring: Planned Features http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0025_hitachi.asp Sentry Software's development team is currently developing a new solution for monitoring Hitachi disk arrays... 0024 23 nov 2010 09:14 icon-nobeta.png Hardware Sentry KM 1.7.00: New Features http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0024_mshw1700.asp New Features and Improvements: Full compatibility with BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management environment, Improved discovery performance, Ability to handle the monitoring of 100 remote systems through WBEM (especially for VMware ESXi/ESX systems)... 0023 22 nov 2010 17:45 icon-nobeta.png Event: BMC Public Sector Forum 2011 http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0023_event-washington.asp Sentry Software will be attending the BMC Public Sector Forum 2011, in Washington, USA, on January 13, 2011... 0022 19 nov 2010 15:34 icon-nobeta.png New Development: Hitachi Disk Arrays Adapter for BMC Atrium Orchestrator http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0022_orchestrator-hitachi.asp Sentry Software is developing an adapter for Hitachi Disk Arrays that will enable BMC Atrium Orchestrator workflow processes to perform specialized functions... 0021 18 nov 2010 17:12 icon-nobeta.png New Development: BMC Atrium Orchestrator http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0021_orchestrator.asp BMC has called upon Sentry recognized expertise in SAN technologies to develop adapters for BMC Atrium Orchestrator... 0020 17 nov 2010 14:15 icon-nobeta.png New Development: Hitachi Disk Arrays/IBM DS Monitoring http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0020_ibm-hitachi.asp Following our performance monitoring modules for EMC, NetApp, and HP EVA disk arrays, new modules for BPPM are in the works to monitor Hitachi Disk Arrays and IBM Data Storage devices... 0019 16 nov 2010 18:05 icon-release.png Update: NetApp Filers Monitoring Solution http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0019_netapp.asp Re-written to provide better visibility in the health performance and activity of the NetApp Filers, NetApp KM for PATROL and its agentless version, BMC Performance Manager Express for NetApp Filers, now offers a larger feature set. Download here... 0018 16 nov 2010 15:15 icon-release.png New Product: HP EVA Monitoring http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0018_hpeva.asp Sentry Software is releasing a solution that enables administrators to monitor their HP EVA disk arrays directly from the PATROL console avoiding the need to use a separate monitoring solution. Download here... 0017 16 nov 2010 11:48 icon-release.png New Product: EMC Disk Arrays Monitoring http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0017_emcdiskarrays.asp Sentry Software is releasing a solution that monitors all of the performance metrics and usage statistics of your EMC disk arrays. Download here... 0016 13 oct 2010 11:06 icon-beta.png EMC Disk Arrays KM for PATROL: New Beta Version http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0016_emcdiskarrays.asp In addition to the monitoring features initially provided with the first beta version of EMC Disk Arrays KM for PATROL, we most recently announced 3 new useful features designed to facilitate servers' management: Lun's Mapping Table, Lun's Owning Processor Table, Search WWN. These features are now implemented in our latest beta version (beta version 1.0.00) and ready to be evaluated. Download the new beta version... 0015 29 sep 2010 17:04 icon-nobeta.png Two New KM Commands for NetApp Filers KM 2.0.00 http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0015_netapp.asp In order to facilitate the servers management, NetApp Filers KM for PATROL will provide, among many other functionalities, the following two useful features: Lun's Mapping Table and Search WWN... 0014 10 sep 2010 15:19 icon-nobeta.png EMC Disk Arrays Monitoring First Screenshots http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0014_emcdiskarrays.asp First Screenshots: in order to facilitate the servers management, EMC Disk Arrays KM for PATROL will provide, among many other functionalities, the following three useful features: Lun's Mapping Table, Lun's Owning Processor Table, Search WWN... 0013 9 sep 2010 12:03 icon-nobeta.png NetApp Filers KM 2.0.00: RC1 Version http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0013_netapp.asp Re-written to provide better visibility in the health performance and activity of the NetApp Filers, the product now offers a larger feature set. Download RC1 Version... 0012 20 aug 2010 14:07 EMC Disks Arrays KM 1.7.00: Beta Version icon-beta.png http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0012_emcdiskarrays.asp EMC Disk Arrays KM for PATROL enables administrators to monitor their EMC disk arrays directly from their BMC PATROL Console avoiding the need to use a separate monitoring solution. Download Beta Version... 0011 27 jul 2010 16:47 NetApp Filers KM 2.0.00: Beta Version icon-beta.png http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0011_netapp.asp Re-written to provide better visibility in the health performance and activity of the NetApp Filers, the product now offers a larger feature set. Easy configuration, out of the box alert thresholds, automated discovery, and very low prerequisite will ensure a seamless deployment of the solution. Download Beta Version... 0010 19 jul 2010 12:41 icon-beta.png BPM Express for NetApp Filers 2.8.00: Beta Version http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0010_netappexpress.asp Re-written to provide better visibility in the health performance and activity of the NetApp Filers, the product now offers a larger feature set. From the disk space allocation to the data traffic on each LUN. Download Beta Version... 0009 15 jul 2010 13:45 icon-beta.png BPM Express for EMC Disk Arrays: Beta Version http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0009_emcdiskarrays.asp BMC Performance Manager Express for EMC Disk Arrays enables administrators to monitor their EMC disk arrays directly from BMC Portal avoiding the need to use a separate monitoring solution. The solution collects and brings. Download Beta Version... 0008 9 jul 2010 10:53 icon-nobeta.png BPM Express for EMC Disk Arrays: New screenshots http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0008_emcdiskarrays.asp New screenshots: Monitoring an EMC disk array, Overall I/Os (MB/sec), Overall traffic, Diagnosing load balancing, Disks Responsiveness... 0007 1 jul 2010 14:16 icon-nobeta.png New Features for NetApp Filers Monitoring http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0007_netapp.asp The selection of performance data and metrics collected by for NetApp Filers KM for PATROL and BMC Performance Manager Express for NetApp Filers has been completely re-evaluated... 0006 30 jun 2010 17:24 icon-beta.png HP EVA Monitoring: Beta Version and First Screenshots http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0006_hpeva.asp HP EVA KM for PATROL enables administrators to monitor their HP EVA disk arrays directly from the PATROL console avoiding the need to use a separate monitoring solution. The KM collects and brings critical performance data. Download Beta Version... 0005 15 jun 2010 10:50 icon-nobeta.png EMC Disk Arrays Monitoring First Screenshots http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0005_emcdiskarrays.asp First screenshots: Disk I/O, Fine Grained Monitoring, Controllers Performance, Historical View of I/Os, Report on Available Space... 0004 7 jun 2010 09:13 icon-nobeta.png More details on EMC Disk Arrays Monitoring http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0004_emcdiskarrays.asp Planned Features: Sentry Software's development team is currently finalizing the monitoring and collection of several critical metrics on EMC Disk Arrays. A beta version will soon be available... 0003 25 nov 2009 11:47 icon-nobeta.png Update: Hardware Sentry KM version 1.7.00 http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0003_mshw1700.asp New Features and Improvements: Full compatibility with BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management environment, Improved discovery performance, Ability to handle the monitoring of 100 remote systems through WBEM (especially for VMware ESXi/ESX systems)... 0002 01 jun 2009 16:12 icon-nobeta.png New product: EMC Disk Arrays Monitoring http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0002_emcdiskarrays.asp Planned Features: Implemented as a KM for PATROL and as an agent-less Performance Manager for BMC Portal, In-depth performance metrics on EMC disk arrays (overall I/O, for each storage pool... 0001 01 jun 2009 12:48 icon-nobeta.png New product: HP EVA Monitoring http://www.sentrysoftware.com/Lab/0001_hpeva.asp Planned Features: Implemented as a KM for PATROL and as an agent-less Performance Manager for BMC Portal, In-depth performance metrics on HP EVA disk arrays... 1001 July 24, 2009 Where is the Storage Add-on? Miscellaneous Storage Add-on for Hardware Sentry KM is now included in Hardware Sentry KM Hardware Monitoring 1002 September 9, 2009 Monitoring the hardware of an HP-UX system Best practice Monitor the hardware of HP 9000 and HP Integrity machines running HP-UX Hardware Monitoring 1003 September 9, 2009 On Sun Solaris systems, non-physical network cards are displayed Problem On Sun Solaris systems, the KM and the PM incorrectly discover and monitor non-physical network adapters (sppp0, clprivnet, etc.). Hardware Monitoring 1004 September 9, 2009 Missing processors and memory modules on Sun Fire M8000 and M9000 Problem The KM and the PM fail to properly discover all of the processors and memory modules in Sun Fire M8000 and M9000 machines. Hardware Monitoring 1005 September 9, 2009 On Sun Solaris systems, physical network cards are not discovered Problem On Sun Solaris systems, the KM and the PM fails to discover some network adapters. Hardware Monitoring 1006 September 17, 2009 On Fiber Switches, Error Percentages greater than 100 are reported Problem When monitoring fiber switches with Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL, certain ports return error percentages greater than 100%. Hardware Monitoring 1007 September 17, 2009 On HP EVA Disk Arrays, Certain WBEM Queries Fail Problem When monitoring devices through the HP EVA WBEM proxy, certain queries fail. Hardware Monitoring 1008 September 17, 2009 On IBM xSeries Servers, no Environmental Information Problem A problem with the IPMI driver prevents the proper monitoring of the environment on IBM xSeries servers. Hardware Monitoring 1009 September 17, 2009 On IBM xSeries Servers, IBM Director 5.20 or later will not work after upgrade. Problem Due to a problem in its upgrade procedure, the IBM Director Agent stops working, preventing Hardware Sentry KM and BPM Express for Hardware from monitoring the IBM xSeries server. Hardware Monitoring 1010 September 17, 2009 On IBM xSeries Servers, Disks are not being reported. Problem On IBM xSeries Servers, issues can arrise if both the ServeRaid Extensions for IBM Director and the ServeRaid GUI are installed on the same system. Hardware Monitoring 1011 September 24, 2009 DCOM 10009 errors in the System Event Log of RSM Servers Problem DCOM 10009 errors appear in the System Event Log of the RSM servers when WMI Script Mode is Enabled. Hardware Monitoring 1012 September 24, 2009 Monitoring Studio does not take into account a change to the Polling Interval. Problem Monitoring Studio does not take into account a change to the Polling Interval. Application Monitoring 1013 September 24, 2009 Sudo Configuration Methods / Execution Methods Problem Detailed description of the various ways to execute commands using the Hardware PM. Hardware Monitoring 1014 September 24, 2009 No Storage Connector Activating when monitoring Dell Servers Problem No Storage Connector Activating when monitoring Dell Servers. No Physical or Logical Disks are shown. Hardware Monitoring 1015 September 24, 2009 HP NC360T not monitored on Servers running Windows. Problem HP NC360T not monitored on Servers running Windows. Hardware Monitoring 1016 September 24, 2009 Invalid username/password Problem Although the connectors are loaded properly, not all instances are created. Hardware Monitoring 1017 September 24, 2009 Unexpected string output result Problem Abnormal output from a set up flat/log file string search in Monitoring Studio. Application Monitoring 1018 September 24, 2009 How to check the IBM Director’s version number? Problem How to check the IBM Director’s version number? Hardware Monitoring 1019 September 24, 2009 WMI Memory leak Problem The problematic is that the various WMI patches from BMC or Sentry do not seem to have cured the WMI Memory leak on your system. Hardware Monitoring 1020 September 24, 2009 VMWare ESX/ESXi installation issue Best practice VMWare ESX/ESXi installation issue Hardware Monitoring 1021 October 22, 2009 Abnormally high CPU consumption on SUN platforms Problem When monitoring SUN servers with BPM Express for Hardware 2.7.03 & 2.7.04, the SunNetwork and the Sunprtpicl connectors generate numerous processes and thus a high CPU load. Hardware Monitoring 1022 November 2, 2009 No Environment information on Sun T1000/T2000 Servers Problem No environnent information on Sun T1000/T2000 Servers (aka T100 / T200). Customers using remote monitoring of the server's ALOM card are not affected by this issue. Hardware Monitoring 1023 December 17, 2009 Monitoring IBM DS Disk Storage Systems with Hardware Sentry KM Best practice How to monitor: DS3xxx, DS4xxx, DS5xxx systems managed by the SMCLI utility. Hardware Monitoring 1024 December 17, 2009 Monitoring IBM DS Disk Storage Systems with BPM Express for Hardware Best practice How to monitor: DS3xxx, DS4xxx, DS5xxx systems managed by the SMCLI utility. Hardware Monitoring 1026 February 8, 2010 Monitoring Brocade SAN switches Best Practice Monitor the health and performance of a Brocade SAN switch Hardware Monitoring 1027 February 8, 2010 Monitoring Cisco MDS 9020 Fabric Switches Best Practice Monitor the health and performance of a Cisco MDS 9020 Fabric Switch Hardware Monitoring 1028 February 15, 2010 Counting the number of files in a specific directory Best Practice Solution to count the number of files in a specific directory Application Monitoring 1029 February 16, 2010 Monitoring VMWare ESX/ESXi (Hardware Sentry KM) Best Practice Monitoring VMWare ESX/ESXi (Hardware Sentry KM) Hardware Monitoring 1030 February 16, 2010 Monitoring VMWare ESX/ESXi (BPM Express for Hardware) Best Practice Monitoring VMWare ESX/ESXi (BPM Express for Hardware) Hardware Monitoring 1031 April 30, 2010 SNMP based connectors failure Problem All SNMP based connectors fail for exactly one hour before reactivating Hardware Monitoring 1032 June 8, 2010 Monitoring of SSL Certificate Expiration Best Practice Monitoring SSL Certificate Expiration dates Application Monitoring 1033 June 10, 2010 Infinite loop reported in the PATROL Agent log or System Output Window Problem The discovery is never completed and seems to be caught in a loop All 1034 June 18, 2010 Monitoring IBM DS6000/DS8000 Series Disk Systems Best Practice How to monitor IBM DS6000/DS8000 Series Disk Systems Hardware Monitoring 1035 July 12, 2010 Monitoring Hitachi Disk Arrays Best Practice How to configure the monitoring of HDS, USP and AMS Hitachi disk arrays Hardware Monitoring 1036 July 23, 2010 Unable to perform remote monitoring from Windows 2008 servers with UAC turned on. Problem Unable to perform remote monitoring from Windows 2008 servers with UAC turned on. Hardware Monitoring 1037 August 16, 2010 Improving BPM Express for Hardware upgrade speed Best Practice Improving BPM Express for Hardware upgrade speed by reducing the number of solution-upgrades xml files Hardware Monitoring 1038 September 6, 2010 Monitoring an HP Proliant Server running Linux/Solaris/Windows/VMWare ESX Best Practice Monitoring an HP Proliant Server running Linux/Solaris/Windows/VMWare ESX Hardware Monitoring 1039 September 16, 2010 Monitoring Dell PowerEdge Servers with Hardware Sentry Best Practice Monitoring Dell PowerEdge Servers with Hardware Sentry Hardware Monitoring 1040 September 16, 2010 Monitoring Dell Blade Servers with Hardware Sentry Best Practice Monitoring Dell Blade Servers with Hardware Sentry Hardware Monitoring 1041 September 17, 2010 Monitoring IBM xSeries Servers with Hardware Sentry Best Practice Monitoring IBM xSeries Servers with Hardware Sentry Hardware Monitoring 1042 September 17, 2010 Monitoring IBM BladeCenter Systems with Hardware Sentry Best Practice Monitoring IBM BladeCenter Systems with Hardware Sentry Hardware Monitoring 1043 September 17, 2010 Monitoring Sun Solaris Systems (sun4u) with Hardware Sentry Best Practice Monitoring Sun Solaris Systems (sun4u) with Hardware Sentry Hardware Monitoring 1044 September 17, 2010 Monitoring Sun SPARC T1 and T2 systems (sun4v) with Hardware Sentry Best Practice Monitoring Sun SPARC T1 and T2 systems (sun4v) with Hardware Sentry Hardware Monitoring 1045 September 17, 2010 Monitoring Sun X86 and X64 Systems with Hardware Sentry Best Practice Monitoring Sun X86 and X64 Systems with Hardware Sentry Hardware Monitoring 1046 September 20, 2010 Monitoring Sun Fire F12K, F15K, E20K and E25K Servers with Hardware Sentry Best Practice Monitoring Sun Fire F12K, F15K, E20K and E25K Servers with Hardware Sentry Hardware Monitoring 1047 September 20, 2010 Monitoring Sun Fire M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000 Servers with Hardware Sentry Best Practice Monitoring Sun Fire M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000 Servers with Hardware Sentry Hardware Monitoring 1049 September 20, 2010 Monitoring IBM AIX Servers with Hardware Sentry Best Practice Monitoring IBM AIX servers Servers with Hardware Sentry Hardware Monitoring 1050 September 29, 2010 Monitoring EMC-CLARiiON Disk Arrays Best Practice Monitoring EMC-CLARiiON Disk Arrays Hardware Monitoring 1051 October 27, 2010 How to automatically get notify by Email of an error in a log file Best Practice Solution to set up an email notification when a particular string is found in the output file of any application Monitoring Studio 1052 November 9, 2010 Monitoring EMC Symmetrix Disk Arrays Best Practice Monitoring EMC Symmetrix Disk Arrays Storage Monitoring 1053 November 23, 2010 Monitoring HP EVA Disk Arrays Best Practice Monitoring HP EVA Disk Arrays Storage Monitoring 1054 December 3, 2010 Understanding Missing Devices and Connector Failures Best Practice Understanding Missing Devices and Connector Failures Hardware Monitoring 1055 December 9, 2010 Monitoring a Cisco UCS server running Windows Best Practice Monitoring a Cisco UCS server running Windows Hardware Monitoring 1056 December 9, 2010 Monitoring a Cisco UCS server running Linux Best Practice Monitoring a Cisco UCS server running Linux Hardware Monitoring 1057 December 9, 2010 Monitoring a Cisco UCS server running ESX 4.0 Best Practice Monitoring a Cisco UCS server running ESX 4.0 Hardware Monitoring 1058 December 9, 2010 Monitoring a Cisco UCS server through its IMC Best Practice Monitoring a Cisco UCS server through its IMC Hardware Monitoring 1059 December 9, 2010 Monitoring a Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Chassis Best Practice Monitoring a Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Chassis Hardware Monitoring 1060 February 22, 2011 How to monitor more than 5 devices Best Practice How to monitor more than 5 devices with Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL Hardware Monitoring 1061 March 25, 2011 Object IDs shown in Hardware Sentry KM do not match with other management consoles Problem Object IDs shown in Hardware Sentry KM do not match with other management consoles Hardware Monitoring 1062 March 30, 2011 Manually Upgrading BMC Performance Manager Express for SharePoint Problem Solution when the automated upgrading process of BMC Performance Manager Express for SharePoint fails Applications Monitoring 1063 May 23, 2011 Enabling Missing Device Detection Best Practice Enabling missing device detection for specific component types on Hardware Sentry KM 1.7.xx Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 1.7.xx 1064 May 23, 2011 Disabling Missing Device Detection Best Practice Disabling Missing device detection for specific component types on Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 1.7.xx classes Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 1.7.xx 1065 May 23, 2011 Why some connectors are of size zero bytes? Miscellaneous The Hardware Sentry KM package contains a set of zero bytes connectors. Is it because the package you have downloaded is corrupted? No... Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL 1.7.xx 1066 May 31, 2011 Things to Know about SMI-S (all supported platforms) Best Practice General information on the SMI-S Providers Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1067 May 31, 2011 EMC SMI-S Provider: Modifying the port Best Practice Modyfing EMC SMI-S Provider ports Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1068 May 31, 2011 EMC SMI-S Provider: Troubleshooting Problem Describes errors that may occur with the EMC SMI-S Provider Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1069 May 31, 2011 EMC SMI-S Provider: Getting CLARiiON Performance in the Profiler Best Practice Getting CLARiiON Performance in the Profiler Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1070 May 31, 2011 EMC SMI-S Provider: Basic operations Best Practice Describes the basic operations available for the EMC SMI-S Provider Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1071 May 31, 2011 EMC SMI-S Provider: Getting the IP address from Navisphere Best Practice Getting the IP address for the storage processors from Navisphere Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1072 May 31, 2011 HDS SMI-S Provider: Getting performance metrics Best Practice Describes how performance metrics are retrieved from Hitachi Data Systems Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1073 May 31, 2011 HDS SMI-S Provider: Enabling SMI-S on Device Manager Best Practice Enabling SMI-S on Device Manager Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1074 May 31, 2011 HP EVA SMI-S Provider: Troubleshooting Problem Describes errors that may occur with the HP EVA SMI-S Provider Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1075 May 31, 2011 HP EVA SMI-S Provider: Modifying the ports Best Practice Modifying the ports for SMI-S Provider and SMI-S EVA CIMOM Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1076 May 31, 2011 HP EVA SMI-S Provider: Command View Best Practice Description and operations that can be performed from Command View Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1077 May 31, 2011 IBM SMI-S Provider: Configuring the CIM Agent Best Practice Configuring the CIM Agent Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1078 May 31, 2011 IBM SMI-S Provider: Basic operations Best Practice Describes the basic operations available for the IBM SMI-S Provider Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1079 May 31, 2011 IBM SMI-S Provider: Miscellaneous information Best Practice Lists miscellaneous information about IBM SMI-S Provider Hardware and Storage Monitoring 1080 June 13, 2011 Using 'sudo' in Hardware Sentry KM Best Practice How to optimize the use the "sudo" utility with Hardware Sentry KM for PATROL Hardware Monitoring 1081 June 21, 2011 Integrating Hardware Sentry KM with BMC Portal Best Practice How to integrate Hardware Sentry KM with BMC Portal Hardware Monitoring 1082 July 29, 2011 Calculating the Standard Deviation using the Multi-Parameter Formula Option Best Practice Calculating the Standard Deviation using the Multi-Parameter Formula Option in Monitoring Studio KM Monitoring Studio KM for PATROL 1083 Aug 1, 2011 Errors considered for physical disks on Sun Solaris Systems Miscellaneous On Sun Solaris systems, the ErrorCount parameter shows the number of errors that occurred on each physical disk since the last counter reset (either a reboot or a manual acknowledge and reset of the parameter). This article details which conditions are taken into account by the ErrorCount parameter and trigger an alarm. Hardware Monitoring 1084 Aug 25, 2011 Monitoring HP StorageWorks MSA2000/P2000 Best Practice Monitor the health and detect hardware failures in HP StorageWorks MSA2000 and P2000 systems Hardware Monitoring 1085 Aug 31, 2011 Monitoring Cisco MDS 9000 Series FC Switches with Hardware Sentry Best Practice Monitor the health and detect hardware failures in Cisco MDS 9000 Series FC Switches Hardware Monitoring 1086 Nov 3, 2011 Automatically resetting the value of a parameter when a threshold is reached Best Practice Automatically reset the value of a parameter when a threshold is reached Monitoring Studio KM for PATROL 1087 Nov 22, 2011 Acknowledging Alerts using alert action Best Practice How to configure a customized alert action to acknowledge an alert after a certain amount of time Monitoring Studio KM for PATROL 1088 Nov 22, 2011 File Monitoring on Dynamic File Best Practice How to monitor the latest log files generated every day Monitoring Studio KM for PATROL 1089 Nov 30, 2011 Monitoring Disk Space on UNC Mounted Drives using Monitoring Studio Best Practice How to monitor the available disk space on network mounted drives Monitoring Studio KM for PATROL 1090 Dec 1, 2011 Where to find the version of the Hardware Sentry KM currently installed on your system? 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