BMC Patrol V9

BMC Patrol is a management system based on agent technology. It comprises a console and multiple agents.

Each host to be monitored has a BMC Patrol agent on it, together with the required knowledge modules. A knowledge module is a plug-in device that connects to the agent and is used to monitor events. The agents send events to the BMC Patrol API and the console collects events from the API. Operators can specify on the console what to monitor and which thresholds to set. BMC Patrol allows for up to three threshold ranges: normal operation, threshold 1 exceeded, and threshold 2 exceeded.

The Probe for BMC Patrol V9 connects directly to the BMC Patrol agents and uses the Patrol API to acquire event data using the same method as the BMC Patrol console.

For details about how to download the most recent version of the probe, see the following Release Notice on the IBM Software Support website:

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21653012

This guide contains the following sections: