Blackout KM

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Blackout KM

for BMC PATROL

Overview

Blackout KM for BMC PATROL helps dramatically reduce the number of triggered alerts by allowing administrators to make PATROL enter into maintenance mode during backups, upgrades, and other maintenance operations. The Blackout KM prevents PATROL from raising alerts that are directly or indirectly caused by such maintenance operations (stopped processes, high disk usage, etc.).

Product in action

Easy and seamless installation through the standard BMC Software Installation Utility
A wizard helps you define the backup periods
Pick up the objects that you don't want to monitor during the blackout.
The blackout KM allows you to plan a monitoring blackout in many ways: daily, weekly, upon process or file presence, etc.
You can stop monitoring something as soon as a specified process is running or not (typically in less than 5 seconds!).
You can plan a monitoring blackout daily, weekly or monthly, that will match your backup schedules
The monitoring will be resumed as soon as NTBACKUP.EXE stops but after 4 hours at the latest if NTBACKUP get stuck!
The Blackout KM allows you to pause the monitoring in several ways: from unloading the classes to temporarily remove the thresholds.
At any moment, you can check the configuration of the blackout in the PATROL Console
At any time, you can control a blackout: start and stop it early, pause and resume it, or cancel the upcoming one.
The disk time usage alerts are automatically blacked-out while the backup runs (disk time in green, blackout in yellow).
The Blackout KM fully supports PATROL Central Windows and Web Edition.

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This product requires BMC TrueSight Operations Management

Blackout KM 1.2.00

Fully supported
Release Notes (Mar 01, 2009)

Packages
Note: Both Windows and UNIX packages contain the setup files for all BMC Software PATROL components (PATROL Agent, PATROL Classic Console, PATROL Central and Console Server).

Documentation

Blackout KM 1.2.00 Release Notes
Blackout KM 1.2.00 Installation Guide
Blackout KM 1.2.00 User Guide
Blackout KM 1.2.00 Reference Guide
Blackout KM 1.2.00 Documentation

Additional Files

Download Java Runtime Environment and BMC Software Installation Utility.

 

Product Lifecycle

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