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

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. The HP SIM integration policy groups contain policies for
monitoring the HP SIM and IM Agent services, clearing/acknowledging events, IM agent
SNMP trap interpretation, etc.
• Web Interface Tools– The HP SIM Integration provides tools to open the web interface for
HP SIM, IM7, Insight Management agent web interface, and the Remote Insight Lights-Out
(RILO) web interface.
OVOU: The HP Systems Insight Manager Smart Link Integration supports the following features on
OVOU:
• Service Discovery– Service discovery is initiated manually by launching the discovery
applications on nodes where the HP SIM Integration commands have been deployed and/or
deploying the discovery template on the OVO management server. This provides service
views of nodes showing the HP SIM management service and IM Agent services.
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• HP SIM Service Monitoring– Templates can be manually deployed to nodes to monitor
the availability of key HP SIM services. Applications are provided to start/stop/status the HP
SIM service.
• Insight Management Agent Service Monitoring– The Insight Management Agent
service monitoring templates monitor the availability of IM agent services. These templates
must be manually deployed on the IM-managed nodes. The HP SIM Integration also provides
applications to start/stop/status the IM Agent services.
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• ProLiant Server System Monitoring– SNMP Trap Templates to generate OVO events
for server 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 the HP SIM web interface for further investigation.
• Bi-directional Event Acknowledgement/Clearing – The HP SIM Integration contains
an optional template 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 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.
• Application groups – The HP SIM Integration groups contain applications to add nodes to
be managed by HP SIM, execute tools on HP SIM- managed nodes, launch the web interface
for HP SIM and the IM System Management Homepage
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, and many more.
• Template groups – The HP SIM integration template groups contain templates for
monitoring the HP SIM and IM Agent services, clearing/acknowledging events, IM Agent
SNMP trap interpretation, etc.
• Self-Healing Services – Self-Healing Services integrate with OpenView Self-Healing
Services to provide improved troubleshooting and streamlined problem analysis and incident
reporting. For more information see
http://managementsoftware.hp.com/service/selfheal.
Service Maps/Views
In OpenView Operations, a Service View is a visualization of a service structure into which events
can be mapped. This provides you with a way of viewing the objects that make up your environment
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The Insight Management Agent trap destination must be manually configured.
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The HP SIM Integration for OVOU does not provide applications to start/stop/status the IM7 service.
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NOTE: If both the HP SIM default event forwarding and the IM Agent SNMP trap templates are deployed, 2 messages will be generated for
each “Critical” and “Serious” incident, one from each application group.
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In OVOU, there are no applications to initiate the IM7 web interface or the Remote-Insight web interface due to browser dependencies.