HP OpenVMS Systems

The key features of HP SMH for OpenVMS are its system administration capabilities and its ability to display details of hardware attributes. The HP SMH solution provides an easy-to-use interface for displaying hardware fault and status monitoring, system thresholds, and diagnostics for an individual server by aggregating the data from HP web-based agents.

HP SMH for OpenVMS replaces the HP Insight Management Agents on OpenVMS.

HP SMH integrates with HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), the strategic platform for multi-system management from HP. HP SIM provides multi-systems management capability by providing administrators single sign-on access to HP SMH on managed servers (stand-alone or partitioned) from a central console.

» For more information, see the HP SMH Web page

HP SIM is the foundation for HP's unified server-storage management strategy. It provides simplified, centralized management of multiple servers and platforms through a Web-based, unified (“single-pane-of-glass”) interface. HP SIM provides the basic tools needed to identify, discover, monitor, and deploy systems and other assets on the network. The core HP SIM software uses WBEM to deliver essential capabilities required to manage HP server platforms.

HP SIM running on a Microsoft Windows ProLiant server supports provisioning of OpenVMS on HP Integrity rx3600 and rx6600 servers and on HP Integrity BL860c Server Blades. An OpenVMS plug-in must be installed on the Windows ProLiant server.

» For more information, see the Provisioning on OpenVMS using HP SIM Web page

To analyze all the data that OVPA collects or receives, you can use spreadsheet programs, Hewlett-Packard analysis tools such as OpenView Performance Manager (OVPM), or third-party analysis products. OVPA gathers continuous information on system activity without imposing significant overhead on the system.

» For more information, see the OVPA Web page

ECP V5.6A is compatible with TDC V2.2.

TDC Version 2.2-108 is the current release of the Performance Data Collector. The download kit contains runtime software for all supported Alpha and Integrity platforms (OpenVMS Versions 7.3-2, 8.2, 8.2-1, and 8.3) and a Software Developers Kit.

TDC Version 2.2 can be used with Enterprise Capacity and Performance

(ECP) Version 5.6A and later, as well as with the OpenView(R) Performance Agent (OVPA) for OpenVMS.

» For more information, see the TDC Version 2.2 Web site

HP OpenView Operations (OVO) is available now and provides you with a service-driven approach to achieving business stability in the adaptive enterprise. It is a distributed large-scale management solution that monitors, controls, and reports on the health and performance of the heterogeneous IT environment across boundaries, thereby improving uptime for all layers that compose the adaptive enterprise environments of today: the network, systems, databases, applications, services, and the Internet.

A new member of this industry-leading suite, HP OpenView Operations Agent for OpenVMS, is an out-of-the-box solution that provides seamless integration for managing HP OpenVMS AlphaServer systems with HP OpenView Operations software. A natural extension of HP OpenView software, this new product provides customers with true end-to-end enterprise management, including the AlphaServer systems.

OpenView Operations Agent for OpenVMS presents real-time OpenVMS AlphaServer monitoring and event management to both OVO UNIX and Windows servers utilizing the native agents and Smart Plug-ins (SPIs). The agent monitors the performance, detects bottlenecks, reports on the availability of the OpenVMS Servers, and can send alarms and notifications based on thresholds set by the operations staff through policies based on the filtering criteria to the OVO server.

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» For more information, see the TDC Version 2.1 Web site