After winning Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and Hewlett-Packard Co for its distributed database management software last week, BMC Software Inc has announced version 3.0 of the Patrol package with new autonomous agents, integration with other Simple Network Management Protocol framework agents and independent consoles. There are new and enhanced versions of BMC’s Knowledge Modules in version 3.0 that provide Patrol agents with product-specific information, enabling a single agent to manage all the components and objects associated with a server, the company claimed. Patrol’s autonomous agents operate independently from a console. They store log parameter and event history locally, and can determine and implement any required changes, removing the need for console dependence and reducing network traffic, BMC said. As version 3.0 includes agent support for Simple Network Management Protocol, other vendors’ management consoles that are compatible with the protocol can access the Patrol autonomous agents, which can also act as mid-level managers, accepting data from other protocol agents, including those monitoring databases and hosts.
PatrolView
Patrol 3.0 is offered with an operator console that provides centralised monitoring of the package’s information, or a development console enabling users to create their own Knowledge Modules. The program console, or any other SNMP manager can be used as the console for viewing data via PatrolView, a new line of tools BMC has developed for enabling the native console of a network management framework to display events and information collected by the program. PatrolView works with HP OpenView, NetView for AIX and SunNet Manager. There is also a new Knowledge Module that can monitor Lotus Development Corp Notes applications and resolve problems. Also new is incremental backup and recovery for Oracle and Sybase via modules for DataTools’ SQL BackTrack products. BMC said Patrol’s scripting language now includes more than 100 built-in functions for collecting and analysing data, and comes with a new graphical debugger. Patrol 3.0 ships in August and is priced from $6,000.
