User goals and features

BMC Performance Manager for PaaS provides Knowledge Modules (KMs) to facilitate the monitoring of the PaaS provided by various cloud vendors. The KMs monitor the public cloud environments to check instance availability and to collect performance metrics. Additionally, BMC Performance Manager for PaaS provides the following features:

• Support for multiple accounts
• Integration with BMC ProactiveNet
• Event generation

BMC PATROL for Force.com features

BMC PATROL for Force.com provides a set of files that contain knowledge in the form of menu commands, application classes, and parameters that BMC PATROL uses when monitoring the components of the Force.com cloud platform.

BMC PATROL for Force.com enables you to do the following:

• Configure and monitor multiple Force.com account instances
• Discover and display monitored objects
• Collect performance metrics for the configured accounts and monitors parameters like data storage usage, file storage usage, status of user licenses and API call usage
• Customize Force.com instances for monitoring
• Set thresholds to effectively monitor Force.com accounts
• Fine tune parameter values
• Provide full metadata support for automated integration with BMC ProactiveNet.
• Manage BMC PATROL for Force.com from all BMC Consoles