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The HP merger with Compaq opened Ted Schachter’s
eyes. “Before the NonStop Enterprise Division
became part of HP, we regarded OpenView as just
another third-party solution for network node management,”
he said. “After the merger, we found that
OpenView wasn’t just a single product, but rather
a family of products for managing the enterprise—and what we really wanted to integrate with was
OpenView Operations, the product that provides
fault and performance management for servers.”
Schachter, a consulting analyst at the Advanced
Technology Center of HP’s NonStop Enterprise
Division, found that there was no OpenView
Operations agent (software that runs on managed
nodes and reports status to the management
console) for HP NonStop servers. He promoted
discussions with third-party vendors and internal
developers to fill the gap.
Today, several OpenView Operations agents
are available for NonStop systems. They include
products based on PROGNOSIS, ASAP, and Reflex
80:20, as well as two offerings from the NonStop
Enterprise Division: OpenView for NonStop Server
Management (OVNM) and OpenView for NonStop
Server Performance Management (OVNPM). “One of
the beauties of the OpenView suite is that it’s open,”
noted Schachter. “You can plug a lot of things into it.”
The whole idea behind using fault and
performance management tools is to catch
potential problems before they cause trouble.
“When you monitor the NonStop system, you need
to be proactive,” said Schachter. “For example, if
you monitor files, you don’t want to find out when
a file is full—you want to find out when it’s almost
full, so you can do something about it. Fault
management tools allow you to set thresholds
that trigger an alert when a problem is about to
happen. It’s also important to track performance
metrics in real time to ensure the best utilization
of resources.”
HP OpenView products span the entire
enterprise, providing both fault and performance
management for everything from servers to storage,
applications, and the network. Three of these
products—OpenView Operations, Network Node
Manager, and OpenView Internet Operations—are
especially relevant as high-level management
“overseers” and have been integrated with the
NonStop system environment. The result is more
effective management of heterogeneous environments
that include NonStop servers, leveraging
common people, processes, and technology.
“OpenView products are the foundation for
much of the work that HP is doing in the area
of managing the Adaptive Enterprise,” concluded
Schachter. “In an Adaptive Enterprise, you need to
measure what’s going on in all the nodes of your
network. With this information, and with the comprehensive
management capabilities and solutions
provided by OpenView, you can adapt quickly to
changing conditions by deploying new machines
or reallocating resources. And now the NonStop
server can participate fully in this powerful, industry-standard
management framework.”
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