Integrating HP OpenView Operations, HP SIM 5.x and Insight Management Agents (418413-002, February 2007)

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Integrating HP OpenView Operations, HP SIM 5.x and

Insight Management Agents

Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 2

What’s New ....................................................................................................................................... 3

Features.............................................................................................................................................. 3

Service Maps/Views............................................................................................................................ 4

HP SIM/IM Service Monitoring ............................................................................................................. 6

Proliant System Monitoring ................................................................................................................... 8

HP SIM Event Integration ...................................................................................................................... 9

Event Forwarding............................................................................................................................. 9

Event Clearing/Acknowlegement ....................................................................................................... 9

Tools/Applications............................................................................................................................. 10

Policies/Templates ............................................................................................................................. 10

Software Version Support Matrix ......................................................................................................... 11

For more information.......................................................................................................................... 12

Summary of content (12 pages)

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Integrating HP OpenView Operations, HP SIM 5.x and Insight Management Agents Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 2 What’s New ....................................................................................................................................... 3 Features.............................................................................................................................
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Introduction The HP Adaptive Enterprise strategy combines industry-leading solutions, services, and products from HP and it’s partners to help enterprise customers to construct a more flexible, responsive, cost-effective IT environment in order to respond rapidly to business opportunity. Figure 1 HP vision of the Adaptive Enterprise The HP Adaptive Infrastructure is the foundation of the HP solutions for the Adaptive Enterprise.
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environment and IM Agent services on managed nodes, including detailed monitoring of HP servers via the IM Agents. Customizable selections of events can be forwarded directly from HP SIM to OVO to enable further consolidation of infrastructure events. The HP SIM Integration consists of commands, policies/templates, tools/applications, services and groups. The integration can be installed in environments consisting of multiple HP SIM management servers and Insight Management agent nodes.
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• • message browser. The integration can also be configured so that clearing an event in HP SIM automatically acknowledges the same event in the OVO database. HP SIM Integration Policy/Tool groups– The HP System Insight Manager integration provides 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, etc.
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to better determine the effect of problems or predict potential problems. Component services are color-coded according to status. The HP SIM Integration provides separate service views for HP Systems Insight Manager and the Insight Management Agent services under the Systems Infrastructure service tree.
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Figure 3 shows a service map of the Insight Management Agent services running on a ProLiant Server. The HP SIM Integration discovery has found Insight Management Agents on the node “DIDICAS” and created a Systems Infrastructure service map showing the discovered services. Figure 3 Service Map on OVOW Displaying Insight Management Agent Services In OVOU, there are applications provided to manually initiate the discovery process on the HP SIM or IM Agent nodes.
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Figure 4: Service View on OVOU Java Console Displaying IM Services Figure 4 shows the Insight Management Agent service view with services discovered on nodes “GUFA” and “IFTEST3”. The service element for the “Storage Agent” service is red reflecting that the service monitoring template has generated a critical message for that service. Figure 5 shows a service view of three HP SIM servers: “GUFA”, “PARATROPE”, and “STROMBOLI”.
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Figure 5 Service Map on OVOU Java GUI Displaying HP SIM Services In OVOW, the HP SIM service monitoring policies are deployed automatically upon service discovery of HP SIM on a managed node. The service monitoring templates must be manually deployed to HP SIM nodes in the OVOU environment. Proliant System Monitoring The HP SIM Integration provides SNMP trap interceptor policies/templates to monitor ProLiant server systems.
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HP SIM Event Integration Event Forwarding When the event forwarding configuration steps are completed, HP SIM events are forwarded to the OVO server via the OVO agent (opcmsg) so that the messages reach OVO in a reliable manner using the HP SIM Integration features. Customize queries to select the HP SIM events to be forwarded, or configure the default event forwarding using the HP SIM Integration tool/application to make configuration simpler.
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Figure 7 HP SIM Events Forwarded to OVOU Event Clearing/Acknowlegement Bi-directional event clearing/acknowledgement between the OVO server and the HP SIM server can be configured. Each direction (OVO -> HP SIM, HP SIM -> OVO) is a separate mechanism and both must be configured for bi-directional acknowledgement/clearing.
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Software Version Support Matrix For the most current information on supported software versions and OS platforms, see the HP OpenView Operations Integration for HP Systems Insight Manager Administrator’s Reference for the OVO version of interest. This documentation is available at http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv/ HP SIM Integration v1.10 Version OVOW 7.5 HP SIM 5.0 5.1 IM Agents 7.2 Insight Manager 7 SP2 HP SIM Integration v1.20 Version OVOU 7.2X 8.2X HP SIM 5.0 5.1 IM Agents 7.
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For more information HP’s Adaptive Enterprise strategy - www.hp.com/go/adaptive HP Systems Insight Manager - www.hp.com/go/hpsim HP OpenView Operations - www.hp.com/go/ovo HP Management Software - www.managementsoftware.hp.com © 2003-2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services.