Deprecated features

From the BMC ProactiveNet Administration Console, Add Monitor

The Add Monitor option allows you to add monitors to BMC ProactiveNet. The monitors you add are displayed in the Monitors folder in the BMC ProactiveNet Administration Console.

For information about adding monitors and monitors in general, see the BMC ProactiveNet Administrator Guide and the BMC ProactiveNet Data Adapter and Monitor Guide from the BMC ProactiveNet 9.0 PDFs page.

Monitoring policies in BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration

No

No

From the BMC ProactiveNet Administration Console, Add Remote Agent

Remote Agents are those agents that reside on computers outside the BMC ProactiveNet Server. The Local Agent resides on the BMC ProactiveNet Server.

For information about Remote Agents, see the BMC ProactiveNet Administrator Guide from the BMC ProactiveNet 9.0 PDFs page.

Add Integration Service from BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration

No

No

Scheduled down time/Schedule Device Downtime

The scheduled down time feature for devices and groups enables BMC ProactiveNet administrators to specify a time range during which the device or group stops collecting data.

For information about scheduling downtime, see the BMC ProactiveNet Administrator Guide and BMC ProactiveNet User Guide from the BMC ProactiveNet 9.0 PDFs page.

Blackout policy

No

Yes

Web Transaction Capture

BMC ProactiveNet Web Capture Tool helps you monitor Web site and application availability in real-time from an end-user's perspective. It emulates end-user business processes and helps report response times and availability.

For information about Web Transaction Capture, see the BMC ProactiveNet Administrator Guide from the BMC ProactiveNet 9.0 PDFs page.

BMC PATROL for Internet Servers (Web Transaction Monitoring)

No

Yes

Diagnostics

BMC ProactiveNet offers both pre-configured and user-defined diagnostic tools to help monitor your system.

For information about the Detailed Diagnostics feature, see the BMC ProactiveNet Administrator Guide from the BMC ProactiveNet 9.0 PDFs page. 

Agent actions

No

Yes

Manage Data Collection

The Manage Data Collection function gives you the flexibility to pause and resume data collection by a device, group, monitor, or service.

For information about the Manage Data Collection feature, see the BMC ProactiveNet User Guide from the BMC ProactiveNet 9.0 PDFs page.

• Agent threshold configuration options
• Blackout policies
• Filter options

No

Yes

Transferring Files to Agent

Transfer Files to Agents enables the user to select files that need to be transferred to agent(s) and optionally also specify a single destination directory on the agent(s) where all the files will be transferred. This feature is part of Web Transaction Capture.

For information about the Transfer Files to Agent feature, see the BMC ProactiveNet Administrator Guide from the BMC ProactiveNet 9.0 PDFs page.

N/A

No

Yes

Template folder, Add from Template menu, and pw template CLI command

Allows you to add a new device using a template.

For information about the Template folder and Add from Template menu, see the BMC ProactiveNet Administrator Guide from the BMC ProactiveNet 9.0 PDFs page. For information about the pw template command, see the BMC ProactiveNet Command Line Interface Reference Guide from the BMC ProactiveNet 9.0 PDFs page.

Monitoring policies in Central Monitoring Administration

No

No

From the BMC ProactiveNet Administration Console, Tools > Configure menu

Allows you to configure BMC ProactiveNet Integration Service and BMC PATROL Agents.

For information about the Tools > Configure menu, see the BMC ProactiveNet Data Adapter and Monitor Guide from the BMC ProactiveNet 9.0 PDFs page.

Add Integration Service or Edit Integration Service dialog boxes

Monitoring Policy Configuration dialog box

No

Yes

BMC PATROL Adapter

BMC PATROL Adapter facilitates pulling of performance data from existing the BMC PATROL solutions into BMC ProactiveNet.

For information about BMC PATROL Adapter, see the BMC ProactiveNet Data Adapter and Monitor Guide from the BMC ProactiveNet 9.0 PDFs page.

The BMC ProactiveNet 9.6 architecture does not need the BMC PATROL Adapter. For more information about the BMC ProactiveNet 9.6 architecture, see BMC-ProactiveNet-architecture-with-the-integration-of-the-BMC-PATROL-Agent

No

Yes

The Integrate with BMC Remedy Service Desk, BMC Event Manager, and BMC Atrium Orchestrator option in the Options screen, when you add an event rule on the BMC ProactiveNet Operations Console.

Creates an AR system request in BMC Remedy Service Desk, or sends an event to BMC Event Manager or BMC Atrium Orchestrator.
For information about the Integrate with BMC Remedy Service Desk, BMC Event Manager, and BMC Atrium Orchestrator option, see the BMC ProactiveNet User Guide from the BMC ProactiveNet 9.0 PDFs page.

No

No

• pproxy and the proxy CLI
• SAdapter  

• pproxy - process that hosted the PATROL integration for the Integration Service
• proxy CLI - CLI used to configure and get information from the proxy process to the PATROL Adapter
• SAdapter - internal adapter owned by pproxy that the PATROL Agents connected to

Java Native Interface (JNI) which simplifies the communication between the BMC ProactiveNet Integration Service and the BMC PATROL Agent(s).

No

Yes

Virtual Inventory report

The BMC ProactiveNet Virtual Inventory report lists virtual entities such as ESX Hosts or VMs, Clusters or ESX Hosts, and Resource Pools or VMs, along with their performance attributes. This report also lists various configuration attributes and supports drilling down to individual line graphs.

For information about the Virtual Inventory report, see the BMC ProactiveNet User Guide from the BMC ProactiveNet 9.0 PDFs page.

No

Yes