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Product Name: Truesight Operations Management Presentation Server
Publisher Page: BMC
Category: Event Management Tools
Release: TKU 2019-04-1
Change History: BMC Truesight Operations Management Presentation Server - Change History
Reports & Attributes: BMC Truesight Operations Management Presentation Server - Reports & Attributes
Publisher Link: BMC

Product Description

BMC TrueSight Presentation Server "consumes events and performance data from the data providers to provide a consolidated set of views for monitoring". The diagram shows how it fits in with other BMC TrueSight Operations Management components.

Software Pattern Summary

Product Component	OS Type	Versioning	Pattern Depth
PresentationServer	Unix, Windows	File, Package	Instance based

Platforms Supported by the Pattern

The patterns discovers Presentation Server deployed on both Unix and Windows platforms .

Identification

Software Instance Triggers

Pattern	Trigger Node	Attribute	Condition	Argument
PresentationServer	DiscoveredProcess	cmd	matches	regex"(?i)\bjava(?:\.exe)?$"
		and
		args		regex"com\.bmc\.truesight\.platform\.BootStrap$"

Simple Identification Mappings

The trigger process is given a simple identification mapping:

Name	Command	Arguments
PresentationServer	java	com\.bmc\.truesight\.platform\.BootStrap$

Obtaining the version information

The pattern attempts to find the installation root from the trigger process arguments and then use that to find file version.txt . Version information can be obtained from this file.

If the pattern cannot find version.txt, it tries to parse ProductRegistry.xml using product key productTrueSightPServer

The pattern also looks for the version information in the package which matches the following regular expression:

^(?i)BMC TrueSight Presentation Server

Application Model Produced by Software Pattern

Pattern Trigger

The PresentationServer pattern triggers on the key JAVA process.

SI Depth

The PresentationServer pattern creates an instance-based Software Instance with the key based on configuration directory,type and host key.

Software Context view

The image below is an example of software context view of the PresentationServer and related software:

Relationship creation

The pattern creates following relationships:

A client/server link is created between BMC Atrium SSO and Presentation server. Presentation server is the client in this link.

A client/server link is created with the client components of TrueSight (BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Manager, BMC TrueSight Application Visibility Manager Portal and BMC TrueSight IT Data Analytics Server) where Presentation Server is the server.

Subject Matter Expertise

Subject Matter Expert input will be welcome on any other potential approaches not discussed to improving product versioning coverage and depth of PresentationServer model.

Information Sources

https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/tsps10/BMC+TrueSight+Operations+Management+overview#BMCTrueSightOperationsManagementoverview-ps_ovPresentationServeroverview

Open Issues

There are no known open issues with this pattern.