HP OpenView

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HP OpenView is a software portfolio from Hewlett Packard Enterprise for managing and monitoring the IT infrastructure of large companies. These include a. also solutions for the central distribution of software on clients and servers. The software package has been called HP Service Activator (HPSA) since 2008 .

Single modules

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OpenView covers various areas of IT management and consists of a number of integrated modules:

Network Node Manager iSeries (NNMi)

for network management .

The NNMi is currently available in version 9.20 (as of October 2012). There are two versions: the standard and the advanced edition. Both versions are licensed according to the number of nodes to be monitored. The NNMi is used for SNMP monitoring of the IP level of network components . These are typically switches, routers and firewalls. In the Standard and Advanced Editions, Layer2 management enables you to look one OSI layer deeper. Additional Smart Plugins (iSPIs) can be integrated for monitoring routing protocols, IP telephony, multicasting, etc. In addition to the graphical representation of the nodes, there is an incident browser in which incident and SNMP traps are displayed. By linking with scripts, event-dependent actions can be triggered.

In addition to monitoring the accessibility of network components, bandwidth capacities, the status of interfaces, line faults, router CPUs and backups are typically monitored.

OpenView Operations

for application and system management. From a management server, e.g. B. Monitor scripts can be distributed to the agents on the individual systems, which report messages about the system and application status to the management server. Administrators can view these messages via a GUI and, if necessary, start stored actions.

Operation Manager for Unix (OMU) formerly: OpenView Operations for Unix (OVOU)

Since version 8, OVOU contains agents that communicate with the management server in encrypted form via HTTPS.

Service Desk (SD)

for IT service management according to ITIL for asset management and identity management .

ServiceCenter (SC) / Service Manager (SM)

for IT service management according to ITIL

The product was integrated into HP OV after the acquisition of Peregrine Systems Inc. (December 2005). The 6.x series is the first edition of ServiceCenter under the HP flag.

In December 2008 the newest version of HP OpenView ServiceCenter (formerly Peregrine ServiceCenter / known as "PSC") 7.x was released. From version 7.x the OpenView software is now called "Service Manager" and is also sold as such.

AssetCenter (AC)

for asset management

Business Process Insight

for business service management to address an IT governance strategy.

Data protector

for data backup , both locally and via LAN or SAN . Plug-ins are available for some applications (e.g. SAP ), databases (e.g. Oracle and DB2 ) and disk arrays (e.g. Symmetrix , HP XP) in order to be able to carry out an integrated hot backup . Up to and including version 4.1 the product was called OmniBack , previously Apollo .

Performance Agent (HPPA, formerly OVPA)

for collecting performance data such as memory usage, hard drive throughput, CPU utilization.

Performance Manager (HPPM, formerly OVPM)

for real-time evaluation of performance data obtained by the performance agent, e.g. B. by graphing historical data.

Reporter (HPR, formerly OVR)

Gathers performance and availability data, which is typically collected by the HP Performance Agent, in a database and creates e.g. B. monthly performance reports from it.

HP OpenView Smart Plug-ins (SPIs)

Application-specific extensions to the monitoring / reporting agents

  • HP OpenView SPI for BEA Tuxedo
  • HP OpenView SPI for BEA WebLogic
  • HP OpenView SPI for BEA WebLogic Integration
  • HP OpenView SPI for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES)
  • HP OpenView SPI for Citrix
  • HP OpenView SPI for Databases (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, and Informix)
  • HP OpenView SPI for Documentum
  • HP OpenView SPI for IBM DB2
  • HP OpenView SPI for IBM WebSphere Application Server
  • HP OpenView SPI for Lotus Domino / Notes
  • HP OpenView SPI for Microsoft Exchange
  • HP OpenView SPI for Microsoft Windows
  • HP OpenView SPI for MySQL Databases
  • HP OpenView SPI for OpenVMS
  • HP OpenView SPI for Oracle Application Server
  • HP OpenView SPI for PeopleSoft
  • HP OpenView SPI for Remedy ARS Integration
  • HP OpenView SPI for SAP
  • HP OpenView SPI for Dollar Universe
  • HP OpenView SPI for Siebel
  • HP OpenView SPI for Storage Area Manager
  • HP OpenView SPI for Terminal Server
  • HP OpenView SPI for TIBCO
  • HP OpenView SPI for UNIX OS
  • HP OpenView SPI for Web Servers
  • HP OpenView SPI for VMware

particularities

Unlike Microsoft's SMS , OpenView is also suitable for managing very heterogeneous IT landscapes with Linux , UNIX , mainframes and Microsoft Windows .