Important This documentation space contains information about PATROL Agents when deployed in a TrueSight Operations Management environment. If you are a BMC Helix Operations Management user, see PATROL Agent for BMC Helix Operations Management 24.2.

PATROL Agent components

This section lists and describes the components provided as part of PATROL and provides an overview of the products from other vendors that you can integrate with PATROL.

The core piece of the PATROL architecture that monitors and manages host computers. The PATROL Agent consists of Perform Agent executables (BDS_SDService.exe, which is registered as a service on Windows platforms, and bgscollect.exe ) and the PATROL Agent executable (patrolagent.exe ), which is registered as a service. ThePATROL Agent performs the following tasks:

  • Runs commands to collect system or application information; the information is collected according to applications and parameters defined in KMs
  • Stores information locally for retrieval by the PATROL Console
  • Loads specified KMs at start-up, runs menu commands, and updates InfoBoxes on the PATROL Console
  • Acts as a service provider for event management

The following table lists all the components provided as part of PATROL:

 

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