[Info-vax] Replacing CA OpenVMS Tools Monitoring tools with BMC Performance Manager (Patrol)?

[Bart.Zorn@gmail.com]

On Nov 10, 12:25 am, "Andrew Wright" <wrigh... at onetel.com> wrote:
>     Hi All,
>              The place I work currently has CA OpenVMS monitoring tools
> (Unicenter Console Manager, Systems WatchDog & Performance Manager). A
> project is under way in looking at replacing the current tool set for all
> platforms with various BMC Performance Manager agents (Patrol as it was
> formely called!).
>              Has any one has any experience with both OpenVMS tools sets to
> make a comparison? From what I can see BMC is mainly a Operating System
> performance tool and as a comparison is similar to CA Performace Manager for
> OpenVMS only.
>
> Andy

While I can't say that I have any real experience with BMC, I can say
that I do not have much faith in them. BMC Patrol (that is the last
version that I worked with) uses a lot of processes (at least 10 on
each cluster member) doing obscure things with a lot of privileges and
using a lot of resources. For an OpenVMS system manager there is
little that you can do with BMC. For that reason, we reintroduced the
CA tools which were sitting on a shelf.

I say obscure things because it looks like the processes are running
DCL procedures which are generated on the spot and deleted before you
can get a look at them.

My suggestion would be: do not replace the CA tools, but keep them and
consider BMC as just another (probably business critical!) application
running on OpenVMS.

Bart Zorn