Hardware Sentry monitors the health of your servers hardware within BMC Software® PATROL®. It's a KM for PATROL: it needs to be installed on each managed server with a PATROL Agent, and then you can check the hardware components of your servers from any PATROL Console. The operators will be alerted as soon as a hardware failure is detected somewhere in your IT infrastructure. It's greater and easier than any other hardware monitoring solution available on the market: with the same module, you can monitor the hardware of almost any server. Great server coverage and easy integration!

For a list of what servers does hadware sentry KM monitors please click on the link below.
http://www.sentrysoftware.net/products/hardwareSentry.asp

Patrol Help Files

Navigate to the correct help file, then click on "Index" in the left pane to look for your particular alarm parameter.
Windows OS
Unix and Linux
Compaq Insight Manager
Microsoft Exchange Servers
Active Directory Services
Domain Services
Oracle
Sybase
All Patrol Help Files

PatrolCli - a powerful tool for Patrol Admins

PatrolCli is a command line program based on the PATROL application program interface that executes on all PATROL Agent platforms toprovide access to the features and functions of a PATROL Agent. PatrolCli is designed to connect to a PATROL Agent in instances when aGUI interface is unavailable, the user is logged into a host via a terminal emulator (without a TCP/IP stack), or using a developer console couldaffect production agents.

You can use PatrolCli to do the following:
• Access PATROL Agents on all platforms.
• Read PATROL objects from the PATROL Agent (the PATROLobjects are also available in the PATROL SNMP MIB).
• Read and send, acknowledge, or close PATROL events.
• Execute PSL scripts that have been pre-defined in the PATROL Agent or are sent directly from PatrolCli.

I have been using patrolcli to gather information from different agents.
Infact we created a site to give more information on the agent.

Here few trips and tricks using patrolcli interface.

A) In Patrol 7 architecture execute the following PSL to get the following information -

1) PSL to get the RT SERVER INSTANCES
print(get("/PHM_RTSERVER/instances"));

2) PSL to print total number of agents connected to a particular RT SERVER
print(get("/PHM_RTSERVER//numConnectedAgents/value"));

3) PSL to print the agents connected to all the clouds
print(get("/PHM_AGENT/instances"));

B) Patrolcli command to send message -

$PATROL_HOME/bin/PatrolCLI "${Patrol_User}" "${Patrol_Connect}" "${Patrol_Event}
"Message text"

Where:Patrol_User="user patrolaccount patrolpassword"

Patrol_Connect="connect servername port#"
(servername=short hostname of a server Patrol Agent is running on. Port # of that Patrol agent)

Patrol_Event="event send STANDARD 41 WARNING 3"

C) Command to view a file on a remote agent.
Create a psl file - a.psl with the following psl commands
lst=system("type\\ c:\\a.txt"); <--- windows filesystem
lst=system("cat /apps/a.tx"); <--- *NIX filesystem
print(lst);
and execute the Patrolcli with the following command.
execpsl -f a.psl

If you need any more information please refer to the BMC document - PATROL®Command LineInterfaces Reference Manual -http://documents.bmc.com/supportu/documents/02/68/10268/10268.pdf