- Hewlett-Packard Printer User Guide

Integrating Solutions with VPO
Deciding Which Integration Capabilities to Use
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When integrating a partner solution it is recommended that you create a
new template for that solution whenever possible. This prevents any
possibility of the conditions defined for the new solution conflicting with
previously defined conditions. In some circumstances, however, this may
result in the generation of similar messages from different sources. To
prevent the Message Browser from being flooded by similar messages, it
is recommended to switch off the Forward Unmatched Messages option
under normal working conditions.
A major goal of the certification program is to ensure that conflicts
between message conditions are avoided. This can be achieved, for
example, with SNMP traps by always including the enterprise-specific
trap IDs in the match condition. For other message sources the unique
application name should be included in any match condition.
These recommendations can be summarized as follows:
1. Try to exploit the functionality of the VPO agent whenever possible.
2. Prefer capabilities handled on the managed nodes to those handled on
the management server only.
3. Define a new template for each integration and/or message source; do
not append new conditions to an existing message source template.