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

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. A key
component of the HP Adaptive Infrastructure, HP OpenView Operations is a market leading
operations management solution for heterogeneous IT environments. HP OpenView Operations
discovers, monitors, controls and reports on the availability and performance of large-scale
heterogeneous IT environments. HP OVO consolidates information for all IT components that control
the business: network, systems, storage, databases, and applications. HP OVO’s service-driven
approach highlights the IT problems that affect your business processes, helping you focus on what’s
most important for your company’s business success.
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is a unified server and storage management platform. Proliant
Essentials, Integrity Essentials, and Storage Essentials are some of the plug-ins to HP SIM to provide
enhanced management for HP server and storage environments. The HP Insight Management Agents
(IM Agents) are part of the Proliant Essentials and Integrity Essentials enhanced server management
software.
This whitepaper describes the HP SIM Integration for HP OpenView Operations (HP SIM Integration).
The HP SIM Integration provides a “Smart Link” between HP OpenView Operations and HP Systems
Insight Manager to enable comprehensive support for HP server and storage products in the Adaptive
Enterprise. The HP SIM Integration implements features for monitoring and managing the HP SIM