HP OpenView System Administration Handbook [Electronic resources] : Network Node Manager, Customer Views, Service Information Portal, HP OpenView Operations نسخه متنی

1.6 ADDITIONAL OPENVIEW PRODUCTS

Hewlett-Packard offers a number of OpenView products. Listed here are a few HP OpenView products with a brief description of the products. While these products may be implemented independently, they can also be fully integrated into the OpenView framework.

The

HP OpenView Integrated Solutions Catalog provides a current listing of third-party software and device vendors that have integrated their products with HP OpenView solutions.

1.6.1 HP OpenView Operations (OVO)

NNM monitors the network connectivity to your computer systems and network control devices.

OpenView Operations (OVO), formerly ITO and VPO[2], monitors what is happening on your computer system by distributing an OVO agent directly to the computer system. While slightly more complex to implement than NNM, OVO offers the ultimate in flexibility of monitoring applications. OVO offers the capability of executing an automatic action when a significant event occurs. For example, the OVO agent can perform local actions as soon as it discovers that a process has died. You can define an automatic action to execute on the managed node that will do one or all of the following: restart the process, send a message to the operator, open a trouble ticket, and page someone. Similar to NNM, OVO has both a native GUI and a Java-based GUI.

[2] With every major release of OVO the product name has changed. The original name of OVO was

Operations Center (OpC), The next release was named

Information Technology Operations (ITO), and the next release was

Vantage Point Operations (VPO).

1.6.2 HP OpenView Performance (OVP)

OpenView Performance (OVP), formerly PerfView/MeasureWare and Vantage Point Performance, is similar to Operations in that it relies on an agent installed on the computer systems to be monitored. While OVO is primarily used in monitoring the availability and problems (faults) occurring on these systems, OVP deals with the performance aspects of the system. The OVP agent collects approximately 300 metrics associated with the operating system on which it is running. The agent has the ability to extend these metrics to an application. For example, you might have a program collecting response times from a web server that you would like to view, notify, and summarize. This can be integrated into the data collected by the OVP agent.

The OVP management station is available on HP-UX, Solaris, and Windows 2000, while the Performance agent runs on HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, NT and several other operating systems. Refer to http://openview.hp.com for the latest releases of the Performance agent.