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Guarantee optimal performance and conformance of your business-critical Microsoft Applications with Sentry Software’s monitoring solution for BMC TrueSight Operations Management
MICROSOFT APPLICATIONS MONITORING by Sentry Software
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KEY BENEFITS
• Improve Availability
• Unavailability leads to loss of revenue and decreased staff productivity
• Reduce IT Costs
• Lack of efficient SharePoint management leads to unnecessary Capital Expenditures
• Unavailable, inaccurate and incomplete documents lead to loss of revenue and decreased staff productivity
• Guarantee Compliance
• Missing data, corruption, out-dated documents means failed compliance
ADMINISTRATOR’S CONCERNS • How many SharePoint sites are created by end-users
every month?
• What is the total content size of the SharePoint servers?
• What will the total content size of the SharePoint servers be next year?
• What are the most/least frequently accessed pages?
• Is the content current and complete?
SUPPORTED ENVIRONMENTS• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2003
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013
• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint 2013
Monitor Microsoft Search directly from your BMC
environment
Monitor the numbers of documents accessed via file system
BUSINESS CHALLENGENo one can deny that Microsoft Applications are now widely used by organizations. In fact, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Search have progressively become inevitable to share or access information across departments. Victim of their own success, Microsoft Applications are, for most professionals, meant to always be available.
IT Administrators are held to a high level of service and must constantly lookout for the slightest failure of their Microsoft components and environments that could jeopardize end-users daily operations. To guarantee a flawless service, they need to closely monitor their system to detect any unexpected behaviors.
THE SENTRY SOFTWARE SOLUTIONConscious of the challenge IT Administrators are facing to meet end-users high expectations in terms of availability and performance, Sentry Software took a step forward and focused on proactively monitoring the most worldwide deployed Microsoft tools.
• Microsoft SharePoint Monitoring by Sentry Software monitors the entire SharePoint environment. It not only verifies the availability of the Web server, underlying databases and application infrastructure but also sends test requests to measure response times, gathers internal performance metrics and collects critical information relating to the SharePoint content itself.
• Microsoft Search Monitoring by Sentry Software monitors the availability, system resources utilization, and other key-performance aspects for Windows Indexing Service, Windows Desktop Search, and Windows Search.
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MICROSOFT SEARCH MONITORING FEATURES
• System resources consumed by search engine
• Activity of the gatherer, indexer, interactions with the system (file system notifications, etc.)
• Detects errors, failures and advanced diagnosis
• Lets setup queries to check the integrity, consistency and accuracy of the catalogs
SHAREPOINT MONITORING FEATURES
• Rapid Problem Isolation
• Pinpoint problems within internal SharePoint components
• Performance & Availability
• Monitor faults in the SharePoint infrastructure
• Measure response times within SharePoint infrastructure
• Analyze internal SharePoint performance metrics
• Utilization Impact Analysis (unique)
• Analyze the utilization of SharePoint by end users to identify bottlenecks, resource hogs, and heavy system users
• Predictive Analytics (when combined with BMC TrueSight Operations Management)
• Proactively identify SharePoint problems before user impact
FEATURED PRODUCTS• SharePoint KM for PATROL
• Microsoft Search KM for PATROL
SharePoint KM shows Web service performances related to a specific virtual
server to facilitate the estimation of the virtual server load.
Monitor the SharePoint Event Log, display a list of the last ten errors that have occurred, and reset of the alarm once the problem is fixed
ABOUT MARKETZONE DIRECT PRODUCTSThe BMC MarketZone Direct program sells and supports third-party products that complement and/or augment BMC solutions. MarketZone Direct products are available under BMC license and support terms.
BUSINESS RUNS ON I.T. I.T. RUNS ON BMC SOFTWARE™Business thrives when IT runs smarter, faster and stronger. That’s why the most demanding IT organizations in the world rely on BMC Software across distributed, mainframe, virtual and cloud environments. Recognized as the leader in Business Service Management, BMC offers a comprehensive approach and unified platform that helps IT organizations cut cost, reduce risk and drive business profit. For the four fiscal quarters ended September 30, 2012, BMC revenue was approximately $2.2 billion.
ABOUT SENTRY SOFTWARE™Sentry Software, a BMC MarketZone Direct and Technology Alliance Partner, provides monitoring solutions that expand and enhance the capabilities of BMC TrueSight Operations Management, thus enabling up to 100-percent coverage of any infrastructure. Sentry Software specializes in single solutions for multi-platform monitoring of hardware, storage, custom applications, or any IT infrastructure component. Its products are deployed in diverse industry sectors around the globe.
LEARN MORETo learn more about our solutions, please visit :www.sentrysoftware.com/solutions
Sentry Software products are made exclusively for BMC Software and are marketed, sold and supported by BMC Software as “BMC” products. They are listed on the BMC Software website products page under the BMC TrueSight Operations Management category.
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