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

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. This whitepaper is intended as a brief overview - for detailed instructions on installation
and configuration of the HP SIM Integration, refer to the Administrator’s Reference for the respective
OpenView product:
HP OpenView Operations Integration for HP Systems Insight Manager Administrator’s Reference for
OVOW
or
HP OpenView Operations Integration for HP Systems Insight Manager Administrator’s Reference for
OVOU
This documentation is available at
http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv/
What’s New
The integration for HP Systems Insight Manager and Insight Management Agents was previously part
of the Microsoft Windows Smart Plug-In (WINOS SPI). The new HP Systems Insight Manager
Integration is a separate installable, and must be installed from the OVO SPI CD installer package to
properly modify the OVO environment.
The HP Systems Insight Manager Integration offers event forwarding from HP SIM to OVO using HP
SIM event collections to filter the forwarded events. The integration can also be configured to
acknowledge/clear forwarded events between HP SIM and OVO.
Features
OVOW: The HP Systems Insight Manager Smart Link Integration supports the following features on
OVOW:
• HP SIM and IM Agent Service Discovery – The HP SIM 5.0 and Insight Management
(IM) agent services are discovered by the HP SIM Integration when nodes are added to the
appropriate HP SIM Integration node group.
• HP SIM Service monitoring– HP SIM service policies monitor the availability of key HP
SIM services. The integration deploys the HP SIM monitor policies automatically after HP SIM
service discovery.
• Insight Management Agent Service monitoring – The Insight Management Agent
service monitoring policies monitor the availability of IM Agent services. These policies are
automatically deployed to a node after IM Agent service discovery.
• ProLiant System Monitoring– The HP SIM Integration’s IM Agent SNMP trap policies
can be deployed to servers with the HP Insight Management Agents installed after the
discovery of the IM Agents. These policies generate alerts for hardware problems.
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• Event Forwarding from HP SIM – The HP SIM Integration can be configured to forward
any collection of events from HP SIM to OVO. The integration associates an operator action
with each event to launch into the HP SIM Systems Page for the device the event is reported
on for further investigation.
• Bi-directional Event Acknowledgement/Clearing – The HP SIM Integration contains
an optional policy which can be deployed to the OVO management server to automatically
clear events in the HP SIM database when the same event is acknowledged in the OVO
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NOTE: If both the HP SIM default event forwarding and the IM Agent SNMP trap policies are deployed, 2 messages will be generated for
each “Critical” and “Serious” incident, one from each application group.