OVNM 5.3 - Operations Agent for NonStop Event Management Guide for UNIX

Integrating OVNM and HPOM 10
Figure 2-1 gives an overview of how OVNM integrates HPOM and a HP NonStop System. It shows that:
1. OVNM is an integrated set of modules with both Event Management and Object Management modules
installed on the HP NonStop Server.
2. OVNM accepts messages from HP NonStop Server and forwards them to HP Operations Manager.
3. Action requests that are based on the NonStop messages are passed on to the HP NonStop server through
OVNM.
4. OVNM accepts the action responses from the HP NonStop server and updates the HP Operations Manager
Management console.
5. OVNM can be used to configure the HP NonStop system objects’ monitoring parameters, thus providing
object management.
OVNM discovers and monitors the status and health of HP NonStop hardware & software peripherals and
standard & third party applications. Its collection sources span system messages, application messages, and log
files. OVNM applies filters to messages to propagate critical/important messages to the HP Operations Manager
console, thereby making the information data stream more efficient.
1-4 Event Management through OVNM
Event Management is the OVNM module, which is concerned with the management of the HP NonStop EMS
messages.
For details on the Event Management System (EMS), refer to the Introduction to EMS topic.
With HP NonStop systems generating events at an extremely fast pace, manual operators are bound to loose
events which may have adverse effects on the overall organizational productivity. OVNM’s powerful Event
Management functionality allows event messages generated by the HP NonStop system to be forwarded after
selective burst suppression and event filtering to the HP Operations Manager Message Browser and console.
Figure 1-2 Event Management
Figure 2-2 provides an overview of the OVNM Event Management capabilities.
The NonStop event integration facilitates:
• Event processing for all subsystems, EMS events and application generated log files.
• Filters allowing for message selection.
• Ability to add additional message text along with alteration of message severity.
• The ability to map NonStop events to service names within HP Operations Manager.
• The ability to take automatic or manual actions into the NonStop Server from the HP Operations Manager
console.
• Feeds NonStop events to both HP Operations Manager Service View and Message Browser.