ASAP OpenView Smart Plug-In Manual

HP NonStop ASAP OpenView Smart Plug-In Manual—529444-001
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Introduction to the OpenView Smart
Plug-In for ASAP
The HP OpenView Smart Plug-In for ASAP is a Microsoft Windows-based component
that acts as an interface between the HP Open Enterprise Management Gateway
(OEM) and HP OpenView Operations for Windows. Its purpose is to integrate ASAP
state and performance data on an HP NonStop system into an OpenView management
environment.
Overview
The OpenView Smart Plug-In for ASAP consists of two main components:
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The ASAP OpenView Adapter, which is a software agent responsible for routing
ASAP data from the OEM into OpenView
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An ASAP OpenView policy, which is added to OpenView and interprets and
manages ASAP data within OpenView itself
The basic mechanism for communicating data between ASAP and OpenView follows:
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The ASAP components on the NonStop server continually gather state and
performance data on both application and system objects.
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This data is sent, on an ongoing basis, to the Windows-based ASAP Client
application, which is responsible for displaying the information to the user and
performing additional analysis functions.
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Once the ASAP Client has completed its analysis functions, information on all
monitored NonStop Kernel objects and their states is sent to the OEM.
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The OEM aggregates and normalizes this data and routes the results to the ASAP
OpenView Adapter.
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The Adapter examines the data to determine if it is necessary to update any
OpenView data. If so, the relevant changes are sent to OpenView.