Reducing events

The following topic shows you how to correlate and analyze performance and availability across the entire data center through a single monitoring platform and console that link application performance to the end-user experience and its underlying physical and virtual resources. The monitoring capability is provided across domains, platforms (mainframe and distributed), and vendors.

BMC ProactiveNet is the core product required to reduce events. It provides a single monitoring platform that collects data and events through a variety of data collection mechanisms, including:

Agent-based and agentless real and synthetic user transactions
Application components (such as databases and web applications)
Infrastructure (servers)
SNMP Network
BMC and third-party monitoring solutions

By implementing this procedure, you can reduce the number of excess events that are generated in your environment and produce only events that require action.

Products and components required

BMC ProactiveNet components:

Roles required

Note

There are many user roles involved in the deployment, operation, and management of BMC ProactiveNet. Your company may employ the roles as described below, consolidate them into fewer roles, or divide them into roles with more granular responsibilities and may have other titles for these roles.

The following roles are required to complete this use case:

BMC ProactiveNet Administrator
BMC PATROL Administrator
BMC ProactiveNet Operator (IT Operations user)

Before you begin

Before you begin this use case you must have installed the following BMC ProactiveNet components:

BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Repository (base) - includes the BMC PATROL Agents and monitoring solutions required for monitoring (Note: The Central Monitoring Repository is a separate download from the BMC ProactiveNet installation.)
BMC ProactiveNet Server with BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration enabled - required to create monitoring installation packages, as well as to configure monitoring.
BMC ProactiveNet Integration Service - integrates BMC ProactiveNet with BMC PATROL and other applications that provide events and data to the BMC ProactiveNet Server.
BMC ProactiveNet Remote Cell - receives source event data from an adapter, integration, another cell, API, the Rate processor, or the BMC ProactiveNet Cell Command Line Interface (CLI).

For detailed instructions about installing these components, see Installing. After successfully installing these components, continue with the following tasks to complete this procedure.

Tasks

Complete the following tasks to reduce events:

Configure third-party sources, the BMC ProactiveNet Cell, or monitoring solutions (PATROL KMs) to generate actionable events

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Use out-of-the-box or custom rules to reduce duplicate events or suppress excess third-party events.

The events generated by BMC ProactiveNet data collection are based on dynamic (baseline) thresholds to reduce the number of false events.

Managing-event-rules

(Optional) If a service model is defined, define enrichment policies to automatically enrich events.

Event enrichment helps the IT operations staff understand the events in the context of what business services and components are impacted.

Enabling out-of-the-box dynamic enrichment event management policies

Creating-a-new-dynamic-enrichment-event-management-policy

View the events in the BMC ProactiveNet Operator Console, assign an owner and a priority, and if required, open a trouble ticket based on the severity of the event

The IT operations specialist views the events in the BMC ProactiveNet Operator Console, assigns an owner and a priority, and if required, opens a trouble ticket based on the severity of the event.

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Assigning-an-event-to-an-individual

Setting-the-priority-for-an-event

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