User goals and features

You can use PATROL for Converged Infrastructure to achieve the following goals.

Monitoring

The product enables you to discover and monitor the following components:

  • UCS manager
  • Chassis
  • Blade servers
  • Rack mounted servers
  • Fans and power supplies for chassis
  • CPU and memory temperatures
  • HBAs for blades
  • NICs for blades
  • Fabric Interconnects
  • Virtual LANs
  • Virtual SANs
  • ESX servers
  • Virtual machines

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Note

When integrating between the solutions (BMC PATROL for Cisco UCS Manager , BMC Performance Manager for Virtual Servers, & and BMC PATROL for Cisco Nexus) on BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management, all three solutions must run on the same PATROL Agent.

Display of true topology

PATROL for Converged Infrastructure KM provides in-context topology for key relationships of the VBlock as well as monitors the compute layer.
 The topology displays the following:

  • under the Cisco UCS Manager are displayed the Chassis, Fabric Interconnects, virtual LAN and virtual SAN
  • under the Chassis are displayed the blade server, with installed ESX server
  • under each blade are displayed the memory, processors, Network Interface Cards (NICs) and Host Bus Adaptors (HBAs)
  • under each Fabric Interconnect are displayed the switches, fabric ports, fabric channel Uplink ports

 To view the icon hierarchy diagram, see Icon hierarchy.

Note

If you have integrated BMC PATROL for Cisco Nexus and BMC PATROL for Virtual Servers, then you can click an element in the hierarchical tree to display the parameters that are being monitored.

 

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