Managing your infrastructure from chip to the business service

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Managing your infrastructure from chip to the

business service

HP Operations Manager and HP Systems Insight Manager integration

Executive summary............................................................................................................................... 2

HP Operations Manager................................................................................................................... 2

HP Systems Insight Manager ............................................................................................................. 3

Achieving end-to-end management with HP OM and HP SIM....................................................................

HP SIM integration (HP SIM SPI) ............................................................................................................

Key features........................................................................................................................................

Service views ......................................................................................................................................

ProLiant system monitoring ....................................................................................................................

Event forwarding .................................................................................................................................

Event clearing and acknowledgement ....................................................................................................

Tools ................................................................................................................................................

Policies.............................................................................................................................................

Conclusion........................................................................................................................................

For more information..........................................................................................................................

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Managing your infrastructure from chip to the business service HP Operations Manager and HP Systems Insight Manager integration Executive summary............................................................................................................................... 2 HP Operations Manager................................................................................................................... 2 HP Systems Insight Manager ......................................................................
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Executive summary IT managers today are under increasing pressure to deliver and maintain the infrastructure and services that enable business to compete effectively and respond quickly to changing market requirements.
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HP OM can also incorporate agent-less monitoring using HP SiteScope software. When used in conjunction with HP Operations Orchestration, it automates routine tasks reducing the labor required to manage IT operations.
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5. The OM service map is updated with a failure-level status on both the physical server symbol and the Exchange service symbol. 6. The OM event browser is updated with a similar level of hard drive and Exchange service entries. 7.
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HP SIM integration (HP SIM SPI) Integration is achieved by installing a smart plug-in (SPI) between HP OM and HP SIM called an HP SIM SPI.
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• Tool groups—Provide separate policy and tool groups to manage HP SIM and IM Agent nodes. The HP SIM tool group provides tools to add nodes to be managed by HP SIM, execute tools on HP SIM – managed nodes, launching the HP SIM Insight Management agent web interface, and Remote Insight Lights-Out (RILOE) web interface. • Policy groups—Contain policies for monitoring the HP SIM and IM Agent services, clearing/acknowledging events, and IM agent SNMP trap interpretation.
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Figure 2 shows the HP SIM service category and the HP SIM services discovered on nodes “DIDICAS” and “GUFA.” Figure 2: HP SIM service view The HP SIM node “DIDICAS” in Figure 2 is colored red, indicating that a message with a “Critical” status has been received for that service. The HP SIM service monitoring policy detected that the service is stopped and the policy-generated message caused the service map to change to reflect the current message severity.
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Figure 3 shows a service view of the IM Agent services running on a HP ProLiant Server. The HP SIM integration discovery has found IM Agents on the node “DIDICAS” and created a Systems Infrastructure service map showing the discovered services. Figure 3: Service map on HP OM displaying Insight Management Agent services ProLiant system monitoring The SIM SPI provides SNMP trap interceptor policies (templates) to monitor ProLiant servers.
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The SIM SPI makes configuration simple by using customized queries to select the SIM events to be forwarded. Any collection of events can be created using HP SIM flexible event collection customization features. The default event collection created by the SIM SPI selects all events of severity “Critical” and “Major.” Events are forwarded when the SIM SPI Event Listener process is started on the HP SIM node.
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Acknowledging HP OM messages when HP SIM events are cleared is accomplished through a combination of event collection and tasks similar to the event forwarding mechanism. An event collection selecting the cleared HP SIM events triggers the Event Listener process to cause the HP OM message to be acknowledged. Tools HP SIM SPI adds the following types of tools for configuration and management.
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For more information For additional information on HP Systems Insight Manager and HP Operations Manager, see the following resources: • HP Systems Insight Manager: http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim • HP Operations Center, including Operations Manager: http://www.hp.com/go/software © Copyright 2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.