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An Introduction to Integrating Partner Applications with VPO
Why Integrate with VPO?
Chapter 128
Why Integrate with VPO?
A successful system management solution must satisfy a customer’s
requirements for unified management across all platforms and all
applications in a distributed environment. These requirements can
seldom be satisfied by a single vendor, making partnerships essential to
extend the functions and scope of a system management solution. With
the HP OpenView VantagePoint Operations Developer’s Toolkit
you have a powerful tool at your disposal to integrate your network
solutions into HP OpenView VantagePoint Operations. By employing the
standard integration capabilities of VPO, and the extended capabilities
of the VPO Developer’s Toolkit, you can create a solution that addresses
a wider range of requirements, and that the customer perceives as a
single, unified product.
The standard HP OpenView VantagePoint Operations (VPO) product
provides operations and problem management for multivendor
distributed systems, and combines:
❏ Management of databases, applications, and networks;
❏ Detection of events occurring on managed nodes or SNMP devices;
❏ Filtering mechanisms to separate relevant events from irrelevant
events;
❏ Generation of meaningful messages that include automatic and
operator-initiated actions, and instructions for operators;
❏ Sophisticated Motif-based GUIs for operators and administrators, as
well as a Java-based operator GUI.
For more information about the standard integration capabilities of
VPO, see Chapter 3, “Using the Integration Capabilities of the VPO
Motif-based GUI,” on page 87.