Product terminology and name mapping


This section provides terminology from different monitoring solutions and how they are mapped to Infrastructure Management.

The following table displays the product terminology and name mapping used for Infrastructure Management.  

Product terminology and name mapping

Infrastructure Management

BMC PATROL

HP OM

IBM Tivoli Monitoring

SCOM

BMC TM ART

Adapter

BMC Portal

HP OM

IBM Tivoli Monitoring

SCOM 2007

BMC TM ART

Monitor type

Application class

Monitor type

Agent type

Object type

Monitor type

Device

Device

HP OM agent

IBM Monitoring agent

Microsoft Windows computer host class of the selected object type

BMC TM ART Central host

Attribute

Parameter

Parameter

Parameter

Parameter

Parameter

 

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