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

[BaxterD at tessco.com]

On Nov 10, 3:01 am, "Bart.Z... at gmail.com" <bart.z... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Wouldn't be another Cerner client would it??   I know they were
pushing BMC patrol pretty hard.

Dave.