Key concepts


PATROL is a systems, applications, and event management tool. It provides an environment where you can monitor the status of every vital resource in the distributed environment you are managing.

The pages in this section provide a high-level overview of the product.

Topics

Content overview

Information about values and benefits that PATROL Agent offers for your business.

Information about the relationship between the BMC PATROL Agent and other PATROL and non-PATROL components in a BMC PATROL 3.x and 7.x environment.

Description of PATROL components and overview of integration with non-PATROL products.

High-level information about PATROL Event Manager engine for event management and the event management services.

List of configuration variables and their descriptions.

List of environment variables that control the environment in which PATROL is installed.

Information about failover.

Information about Event buffering

Information about supported application power management.