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Collecting Metrics with HP Operations Agent

The HP Operations Agent helps you to monitor a system by collecting metrics that indicate the health, performance, availability, and resource utilization of essential elements of the system.

When you use the HP Operations Agent in conjunction with Business Service Management Connector (BSMC), you can add the capability to monitor business applications running on monitored systems.

With its embedded data collector, the HP Operations Agent collects a rich set of system performance metrics from the monitored system to help you analyze the system health. Using minimal system resources, HP Operations Agent continuously collects and summarizes performance and health data across your system and stores the collected data into the metrics data store. The collected data is stored in a single Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) based data store.