Product Name: PATROL
Product Description: PATROL from BMC Software, Inc. is an event-driven application management tool that enables the integrated, centralized management of all elements critical to running a business. This includes databases, networks, operating systems, hardware and user-defined application executables. PATROL provides an overall management scheme that is efficient, scalable and reliable. Through the use of autonomous agent architecture and knowledge module technologies, it provides an off-the-shelf solution for commonly encountered management scenarios, yet also provides an architecture which can adapt to managing nearly any technology. This unique built-in extensibility and ease of customization provides PATROL users a means to focus on managing their business, not just a means of managing technology.
The PATROL components are the Console, Agent and Knowledge Modules (KMs). KMs are loadable libraries used to manage specific applications. Those applications include Oracle, Oracle Financials, Sybase, CA-OpenIngres and Informix. Other KMs are forthcoming. The key advantage to this technology is that KMs can be developed to manage most applications running in a business environment. The software also includes an Event Manager and an optional product called ``PATROLINK" to allow console integration with systems management products like SunNet Manager. The event manager not only displays a wide variety of event types, but also centrally coordinates actions that respond to specific events. PATROLINK provides the capability to populate other system management consoles with PATROL events and gives the ability to launch the PATROL console from within the system management application.
Solaris Support: Solaris 1.x, Solaris 2.x
Availability: Worldwide
Language Support: US English, French, German and Russian