OVNM 5.3 - Operations Agent for NonStop SNMP Adapter Guide

SNMP Adapter: An Introduction 6
1-4 Benefits
The following are the benefits of using SNMP Adapter:
• Increased Service Availability: SNMP Adapter brings information critical to managing Service Level
Agreements on HP NonStop systems to the Enterprise Management environment. System availability and
performance will be improved, as monitoring will highlight potential breaches in Service Level Agreements.
• Structured Approach to Event Handling: SNMP Adapter enables fast event management that is not only
strategically important for the administrative setup but also assists in developing systematic procedures for
tackling events and related activities.
• Enhanced Flexibility: Keeping in mind the ever-changing needs of business organizations, SNMP Adapter
can be configured to suit your requirements. SNMP Adapter can be utilized from multiple HP NonStop
nodes, simultaneously. This centralizes event management to the Enterprise Management Console in your
environment and provides a business wide view of alerts. The product is therefore ideal for organizations
with an ever-increasing requirement for more intelligent and practical event management.
• Failover Recovery: SNMP Adapter is designed to take full advantage of the NonStop fault tolerant features.
Its unique design ensures the alert messages are delivered properly in case of a catastrophic failure. The
main processes are designed with NonStop architecture to recover automatically when the primary process
fails. It even accommodates alternate paths for delivery of alerts over TCP/IP, to safeguard against any
communication loss.
• Policy Based Management: With the help of SNMP Adapter, standards can be applied to ensure the events
being dispatched to the Enterprise Management Console meet business requirements. Service names,
Customer names and Locations of specific objects can be encapsulated into each message to provide
distinct and meaningful monitoring.
• Reduced Costs: In today’s environment, the diversity of platforms to be monitored and the volume of alerts
create a large amount of work. This may require the staff to monitor each environment individually. SNMP
Adapter reduces the requirement to deploy specific staff for managing the HP NonStop and SNMP tarps
separately by making the front-end environment compatible with HP NonStop systems, reducing system and
support management costs.
• Consistent Operating Procedures: With SNMP Adapter the procedures followed by organizations become
systematic and well structured, bringing consistency in the operating procedures.
• 7x24x365 System Support: As with any other HP product, SNMP Adapter has been designed to provide
round-the-clock availability enabling organizations to provide non-stop availability of their mission critical
systems.