1.0.00 features

This topic contains information about the features in version 1.0.00 of the BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization product and provides instructions for downloading the installation files.

Features

BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provides the following features for monitoring your environment.

Discover your virtualization components

After you add Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Managers to your environment, BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization automatically discovers the following virtualization components:

  • Data centers
  • Clusters
  • Storage domains
  • Hosts
  • Virtual machines (VMs)

View performance reports

In BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, you can access several reports that enable you to assess the performance of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization hosts and VMs contained in your virtual environment. The following reports are available in BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. For information about how to generate these reports, see Generating-host-and-virtual-machine-reports-in-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Virtualization-environment.

Top 10 hosts by CPU report

This report lists the following information:

  • Top 10 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization hosts that are consuming the largest amount of CPU resources
  • CPU consumed by those hosts

You can obtain this report at the following levels:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
  • Data center
  • Cluster

Top 10 hosts by memory report

This report lists the following information:

  • Top 10 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization hosts that are consuming the largest amount of memory
  • Memory consumed by those hosts

You can obtain this report at the following levels:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
  • Data center
  • Cluster

Top 10 VMs by CPU report

This report lists the following information:

  • Top 10 VMs that are consuming the largest amount of CPU
  • CPU consumed by those VMs

You can obtain this report at the following levels:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
  • Data center
  • Cluster
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization host

Top 10 VMs by memory report

This report lists the following information:

  • Top 10 VMs that are consuming the largest amount of memory
  • Memory consumed by those VMs

You can obtain this report at the following levels:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
  • Data center
  • Cluster
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization host

Create filters for monitoring

You can create filters to include or exclude data centers, clusters, hosts, and VMs from monitoring. In addition, you can filter hosts and VMs based on the availability of fully-qualified domain names (FQDNs). For more information, see Configuring-filters-for-data-centers-clusters-hosts-and-virtual-machines.

Monitor performance statistics for hosts and VMs

Using BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, you can access performance data for hosts and VMs, measuring how virtual resources affect your physical resources. The types of performance data that you can measure include the following:

  • The allocation of resources - what CPU or memory resources have been assigned to a host or VM
  • The amount of resources used - how the assigned resources have been used by the host or VM
  • The rate of resource utilization - percentage of resources used versus the amount of resources allotted

Monitor the migration of VMs in a cluster

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment supports live migration of a VM from one Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization host to another. BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enables you to monitor these migrations for analysis by using various parameters that display information about the number of migrations for the past one hour and one day. For more information about these parameters, see Number-of-VM-Migrations-in-last-day-VMMigrationPerDay and Number-of-VM-Migrations-in-last-hour-VMMigrationPerHour.

Support for BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration

BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization version 1.0.00 is enabled for BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration (CMA). You can configure the REV Manager Container monitor type through CMA.

For more information, see Configuring-in-a-BMC-ProactiveNet-Performance-Management-environment.

Configure Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment using BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration console

Version 1.0.00 of BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and version 9.0.00 of BMC PATROL Agent allow you to configure your Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment by using the BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration console. This configuration controls the transfer of monitoring data from BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to BMC ProactiveNet. For more information, see Configuring-in-a-BMC-ProactiveNet-Performance-Management-environment.

Downloading the installation utility and the product files

This section provides information for downloading BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 1.0 and BMC PATROL Installation Utility from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution (EPD) website.

Note

If you have previously downloaded other BMC products, you might have an older version of the installation utility on your hard drive. BMC recommends that you use the latest version of Installation Utility.

  1. Create a directory for the downloaded files.
  2. Go to http://www.bmc.com/available/epd.html.
  3. At the logon prompt, enter your user ID and password, and click Submit.
  4. On the Export Compliance and Access Terms page, provide the required information, agree to the terms of the agreements, and click Continue.
  5. If you are accessing this site for the first time, create an EPD profile to specify the languages and platforms that you want to see, per the EPD site help; otherwise, skip to step 6.
  6. Verify that the correct profile is displayed for your download purpose.

  7. Download the installation utility and the product using either of the following methods:

Using Component View

  1. In the Product Category list, ensure that Performance Management is selected.
  2. In the Filter Products field, type BMC PATROL Installation Utility.
  3. Click Go.
  4. In the right pane, click BMC PATROL Installation Utility.
  5. In the Version list, select 9.6.00, and click Go.

  6. In the Products tab, based on the operating system, select the check box next to the files.

    Link title

    Actual file name

    Platform

    BMC PATROL Installation Utility Version 9.6.00 - Windows Only

    ins_WINDOWS_9600.zip

    Microsoft Windows/NT

    BMC PATROL Installation Utility Version 9.6.00 - All UNIX/LINUX

    ins_ALL_9600.tar

    All Platforms

  7. To download the selected files, click Download (FTP) or Download Manager:
    • Download (FTP) places the selected items in an FTP directory, and the credentials and FTP instructions are sent to you in an email message.
    • Download Manager enables you to download multiple files consecutively and to resume an interrupted download.
      This method requires a one-time installation of the Akamai NetSession client program on the target computer and is usually the faster and more reliable way to transfer files. A checksum operation is used to verify file integrity automatically.
  8. Click Back to Product List.
  9. In the Filter Products field, type BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
  10. Click Go.
  11. In the right pane, click BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
  12. In the Version list, ensure that 1.0.00 is selected.

  13. In the Products tab, based on the operating system, select the check box next to the files. 

    Link title

    Actual file name

    Platform

    BMC PATROL Version 1.0.00 for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

    rev_ALL_1000.zip

    Microsoft Windows/NT

    BMC PATROL Version 1.0.00 for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

    rev_ALL_1000.tar

    Linux

  14. To download the selected files, click Download (FTP) or Download Manager. 
    • Download (FTP) places the selected items in an FTP directory, and the credentials and FTP instructions are sent to you in an email message.
    • Download Manager enables you to download multiple files consecutively and to resume an interrupted download.
      This method requires a one-time installation of the Akamai NetSession client program on the target computer and is usually the faster and more reliable way to transfer files. A checksum operation is used to verify file integrity automatically.

Using Licensed View

  1. Click Go To Licensed Products View.
  2. Locate BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Suite or BMC TrueSight Operations Management.
  3. Under BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Suite, expand the BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Suite 9.6.00 folder or, under BMC TrueSight Operations Management, expand the BMC TrueSight Operations Management 9.6.00 folder.
  4. Expand BMC PATROL Installation Utility 9.6.00 to show the available files.

  5. Select the check box next to the files, based on the appropriate platforms.

    Link title

    Actual file name

    Platform

    BMC PATROL Installation Utility Version 9.6.00 - Windows Only

    ins_WINDOWS_9600.zip

    Microsoft Windows/NT

    BMC PATROL Installation Utility Version 9.6.00 - All UNIX/LINUX

    ins_ALL_9600.tar

    All Platforms

  6. To download the selected files, click Download (FTP) or Download Manager.
  7. Under the BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Suite 9.6.00 folder, expand the BMC Server Monitoring and Analytics 9.6.00 folder or under the BMC TrueSight Operations Management 9.6.00 folder, expand the BMC TrueSight Server Analyzer 9.6.00 folder.
  8. Expand the BMC PATROL for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 1.0.00 component to show the available files. 

  9. Select the check box based on the appropriate platform.

    Link title

    Actual file name

    Platform

    BMC PATROL Version 1.0.00 for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

    rev_ALL_1000.zip

    Microsoft Windows/NT

    BMC PATROL Version 1.0.00 for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

    rev_ALL_1000.tar

    Linux


  10. To download the selected files, click Download (FTP) or Download Manager.

Where to go from here

After you download the installation files, to install the KM on the different consoles, see Installing.

Related topic

Known-and-corrected-issues

 

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