BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management architecture and components

The components of BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management enable event management, service impact management, performance monitoring, and performance analytics. Collectively, these components serve as a data provider to the Presentation Server. The following diagram provides the high-level architecture of the Infrastructure Management components, which are part of the larger BMC TrueSight Operations Management system.

BMC TrueSight Operations Management core components

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BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management interfaces

In addition to the Operations Management interfaces, the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management system provides additional interfaces for consuming the data collected and processed by this system and for configuring and customizing the system. The following table describes each interface and it's purpose.The [confluence_table-plus] macro is a standalone macro and it cannot be used inline. Click on this message for details.
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BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server

The Infrastructure Management Server receives events and data from the following sources:

BMC PATROL Agents
Event Management Cells
Third-party event and data sources

After the Infrastructure Management Server collects this information, it processes events and data using a powerful analytics engine and additional event processing instructions stored in its database. The Infrastructure Management Server can also leverage a service model (built within the Infrastructure Management Server or published from the BMC Atrium CMDB) to map data and events in context with business services. You can deploy one or more Infrastructure Management servers.

For more information, see Deployment use cases and best practices for Infrastructure Management in the deployment documentation.

The BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management server consists of the following functions and components. For more information, see Infrastructure-Management-Server.The [confluence_table-plus] macro is a standalone macro and it cannot be used inline. Click on this message for details.
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TrueSight Infrastructure Management Integration Service

The Integration Service manages events from event sources such as BMC PATROL Agents, event adapters, and SNMP traps, and forwards performance data to the Infrastructure Management Server.

For more information about the integration service, see Infrastructure-Management-Integration-Service. For information about the deployment of these components, see Integration-Service-host-deployment-and-best-practices-for-event-processing-and-propagation.

Event and performance data

Events are collected from the following sources:

BMC PATROL – PATROL Agents can be configured to generate events about metrics. As a best practice, the PATROL Agent is configured to generate nonperformance, availability-related events, binary events, and events from the Knowledge Module (KM).
BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server – The BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server can be configured to generate performance-related events.

Adapters – Events from other sources can be processed by event adapters such as SNMP adapters and log file adapters. All events from various sources are sent to event processing cells for correlation, deduplication, filtering, normalization, and enrichment.

Performance data is collected from BMC PATROL Agents or from other sources such as BMC Portal and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, using the appropriate adapters. Not all performance data has to be forwarded to the Infrastructure Management Server. Performance data can be collected and stored at the BMC PATROL Agents and visualized as trends in the Infrastructure Management console without streaming the data to the Infrastructure Management Server.

For information about event and performance data propagation, see Integration-Service-host-deployment-and-best-practices-for-event-processing-and-propagation.