In BMC Performance Manager, a set of files, knowledge modules (KM) from which a PATROL Agent receives information about resources running on a monitored computer. A KM file can contain the actual instructions for monitoring objects or simply a list of KMs to load. KMs are loaded by a PATROL Agent and a PATROL Console. KMs provide information for the way monitored computers are represented in the BMC PATROL interface, for the discovery of application instances and the way they are represented, for parameters that are run under those applications, and for the options available on object pop-up menus. A PATROL Console in developer mode can change KM knowledge for its current session, save knowledge for all of its future sessions, and commit KM changes to specified PATROL Agent computers. A KM file contains the source code for a BMC PATROL application.
This knowledge module can be loaded or imported in the following consoles:
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This section provides information about terminologies used in the BMC PATROL for Microsoft Windows.
Term | Environment |
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Applications | Common to both BMC PATROL and BMC Proactivenet Performance Management |
Application Discovery | Specific to BMC PATROL |
InfoBoxes | Specific to BMC PATROL |
Application Classes | Specific to BMC PATROL |
Monitoring Types | Specific to BMC Proactivenet Performance Management |
Parameters | Specific to BMC PATROL |
Attributes | Specific to BMC Proactivenet Performance Management |
Menu Commands | Specific to BMC PATROL |
Monitoring Solutions | Specific to BMC Proactivenet Performance Management |
Monitoring Profiles | Specific to BMC Proactivenet Performance Management |
An application in PATROL is any resource used or running on a computer. BMC PATROL for Microsoft Windows has a basic set of applications that monitor events such as monitoring log files. Each running copy of an application discovered by PATROL is called an instance of the particular application class.
PATROL discovers applications using instructions provided by the Knowledge Module for Microsoft Windows (KM). The instructions provided by the KM include application discovery rules that you have defined. When PATROL discovers an application, it represents the application with an icon either in the icon window for the monitored computer on which it runs or in an application window specified for all application instances of that class. You can add a new application class to PATROL so that it will find all future instances of that application running on monitored computers. PATROL periodically runs application discovery to discover new applications and to verify that previously discovered applications and files are still there. If an application or file previously discovered is not found, PATROL triggers an alert, either audible or visual, for the missing resource. Application discovery rules are defined using either
InfoBoxes are tables of attributes accessed from parameters and application class icons. The PATROL consoles and PATROL Agent populate all of the attributes that appear in the parameter InfoBoxes and some of the attributes, such as icon type or status, that appear in the application InfoBoxes.
Application classes are the object classes to which an application instances belong; also, the representation of the class as a container in UNIX or folder in Windows on the PATROL Console. It is a logical grouping of individual applications, while an application group is a logical grouping of application instances. You can use the developer functionality of a PATROL Console to add or change application classes. Within PATROL, you use application classes to define the attributes of all instances within an application class (global settings), or the attributes of a single application instance that has been customized (local settings). In BMC ProactiveNet, monitor types are similar to application classes. Monitor types are a way of classifying the data that is to be collected.
Parameters are the monitoring elements of a PATROL knowledge module. Parameters are run by the PATROL Agent, they periodically use data collection commands to obtain data on a system resource and then parse, process, and store the data on the computer that is running the PATROL Agent. Parameters can display data in various formats, such as numeric, text, stoplight, and Boolean. Parameters have thresholds and can trigger warnings and alarms. In BMC ProactiveNet, attributes are similar to parameters. Attributes classify monitor types into types of data.
The BMC PATROL for Microsoft Windows Servers KM product has the following types of parameters:
In PATROL console, menu commands, also known as KM commands are a menu of commands for a monitored object. You can configure the knowledge module, discover hosts, add objects, and set thresholds of parameters using menu commands. Right-click an object to access its menu commands.
A monitoring solution is a pre-defined set of metrics that monitor the health and performance of a specific device or service. BMC monitoring solutions are composed of monitor types and attributes.
In BMC ProactiveNet, monitoring profiles are profiles to which the monitor types you want to enable are associated. Each solution contains multiple monitoring profiles and help to reduce unnecessary monitoring. Each monitoring profile is associated with a group of monitor types. The monitor types that belong to a profile are pre-determined. You cannot add or remove monitor types from a profile.