1. TrueSight vs Nagios & Foglight
By Datapro Computer Systems

2. TrueSight – Nagios – Foglight
The features of these 3 softwares are different:
Nagios feature is subset of TrueSight Operation Management features
Only few features of Foglight are in the same area as TrueSight

3. TrueSight vs Nagios Nagios is subset of TrueSight TrueSight Features
Nagios Feature

4. TrueSight vs Nagios Patrol Nagios Core System Monitoring
Service Model
No Service Model
TrueSight Impact Manager

5. Nagios Core (Freeware)
Have to edit configuration file to change the threshold
Have to edit configuration file to add hosts to be monitored

6. Nagios XI (Licensed version)
Have to understand Nagios Syntax to change the configuration

7. TrueSight with Patrol Agent
Define threshold and configure monitoring behavior through GUI

8. TrueSight Dynamic Threshold
Self-Learning Analytics - Eliminate 90% of Unnecessary Events & Tickets

9. What can we monitor?
For Nagios, it’s not easy to configure each add-on to monitor all of these

10. Nagios - Patrol Comparison
Nagios Core (Freeware)
Nagios XI (License)
TrueSight with Patrol Agent
Add-on Monitoring Modules No
Yes: OS,DB,Web Server, …etc
Modifying the configuration & threshold
Edit config files
GUI with command line
GUI
Need to restart after modifying the config
Yes
Monitoring Console
Not so friendly
Friendly GUI
Dynamic Threshold
Service Model

11. TrueSight with Nagios?
TrueSight is “Monitoring Tool” with “Service Model”
Patrol Agent
ProactiveNet Server
Service Model (TrueSight Impact Management)
Patrol  Nagios
TrueSight can work with other monitoring tools
Nagios Agent (NSCLient /NRPE add-on)
Nagios Core  send data to  ProactiveNet Server
Service Model

12. TrueSight & Nagios Integration
Patrol Agents
Service Models
ProactiveNet Server
Nagios Agents
TrueSight Console
ProactiveNet Library (msend)
Nagios Core Server

13. TrueSight-Nagios Integration
Write Nagios Macro, Write ProactiveNet msend script

14. TrueSight-Nagios Integration
Alarm event is forwarded to TrueSight

15. TrueSight-Nagios Integration
When it’s back to normal state, TrueSight will turn it to normal state also

16. TrueSight vs Foglight
They focus on different things

17. Foglight for Database
Focus on Database Diagnostic & Performance Tuning
A Lot of technical details, Suitable for DBA & Technical guy

18. Foglight APM
Focus on Web Application Diag / Trace / Performance Tuning
A Lot of technical details for Application guy, System N/W Admin

19. Foglight Monitoring Console
Separated console for each products

20. TrueSight - Single Console
Single console for all monitored systems/apps
Event consolidation from other vendor’s tools
Present in the form of Event Console or Business Service Model

21. Event Management Console
Event Grouping can be customized and categorized

22. TrueSight Event Management
Data are collected from various data sources and BMC Event Management Module presents them on the dashboard
Event Management
Dash Board
SNMP Traps
ProactiveNet Event Adaptor
Event Management
Patrol Agent
Data Sources
3rd Party Monitoring Tools

23. TrueSight Impact Management
Service Model
Service Impact Dash Board
SNMP Traps
ProactiveNet Event Adaptor
Service Impact
Management
Patrol Agent
If service model is configured, it can be presented in the viewpoint of Business Service Model
Data Sources
3rd Party Monitoring Tools

24. TrueSight Service Model

25. TrueSight Probable Cause Analysis
Time correlation
The event being analyzed as the probable cause occurred during a logical timeframe, which might make it the cause of the result event.

26. TrueSight Probable Cause Analysis
User-defined filters
Once the event has passed the time correlation filter
Knowledge patterns
If you have determined that a certain set of criteria usually results in the same probable cause event, then you can create a knowledge pattern
Scoring
based on a combination of factors computed by BMC ProactiveNet that determine the likelihood that the event is a probable cause event.
Service Model Relationships
The relationships between configuration items (CIs) identify potential probable cause events.

27. TrueSight vs Foglight Foglight DB,Storage Foglight APM
TrueSight (Pnet)
Main Purpose of the software
Diag, Tuning, Monitoring
Diag, Tracing, Monitoring
Service Model - Event Mngt. & Monitoring
Target system to be monitored
Databases, Storage
Web Applications
OS ,Database , Web Apps, ERP
Root cause analysis
Technical approach
Probable Cause Analysis approach
Service Model No
Yes
Single Console for all monitored systems
Integrate with other tools -
Nagios, HPOV, …

28. What are our needs? System Monitoring? Service Model?  TrueSight
OS: Windows, Unix, …  TrueSight-Patrol / Nagios
DB: Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, …  TrueSight-Patrol / Nagios
Application: Web Application Server, ERP, …  TrueSight-Patrol / Nagios
Service Model?  TrueSight
Database drill-down diag & monitoring  Foglight
Application Performance Monitoring (User Experience Monitor)
 Foglight (or “TureSight Visualization”)