IMPORTANT: All requests must be received by:
We are pleased to inform you that under
your support agreement you are eligible to receive the following release: HP OpenView Operations for Unix
Update, including the NNM 6.41 CD, the updated HP OpenView Smart Plug-In CDs
for which you have applicable support contracts, and the evaluation version of
HP OpenView Internet Services. (OVOAUG)
What's new with this update
This version includes a new evaluation kit for OpenView
Internet Services including application response probes, as well as an update
of the HP OpenView Smart Plug-in CDs and NNM 6.41.
If you currently use, or intend to evaluate Smart Plug-ins,
this update release is strongly recommended for you. There are no changes to HP
OpenView Operations for UNIX itself, only to the Smart Plug-ins, the addition
of OpenView Internet Services and NNM 6.41.
HP OpenView
Internet Services evaluation kit
This evaluation kit allows you to try out the benefits
of extending your management view on applications to the dimension of customer experience. You will be able to:
§
monitor customer
experience for a variety of application, network, and protocol services
§
use synthetic
transactions to detect problems before the service user
§
support service
level agreements by configuring service level objectives
Updated HP OpenView
Smart Plug-ins
You can find a complete list of all new features along with
more details in the SPI-CD Release Notes.
The overview of enhanced HP OpenView Smart Plug-Ins (SPI) is:
Peoplesoft:
extended support to PeopleTools 8.1/8.4, and OVO 7.1, updated o/s
version support
Microsoft Exchange: added service views,
updated performance graphs, auto deployment of templates and instrumention
BEA Tuxedo: extended
support to Tuxedo 8.1
BEA WebLogic
Application Server: extended support to WebLogic 8.1, added support for
duplicate server names
IBM
WebSphere Application Server: quality improvement
MS SQL
Server: extended support to 64-bit database environments
SAP: new
application response probe (available on the OpenView Internet Services CD)
Network
Diagnosis Add-on Module: quality improvements
Remedy
Action Request System: quality improvements
Unix
operating system: updated o/s version support, improved process
monitoring
Windows operating system: added
service views, support for MS Terminal Server, MS Backoffice applications, MS
IIS and Site Server, HP Insight Manager, HP Top Tools, Dell Open Manage, Anti
Virus applications, Backup and storage applications
Latest version of NNM (6.41)
For more information about NNM 6.41, refer to the documents
linked below:
§ What's New
in Network Node Manager 6.4 and NNM Extended Topology 2.0
§ HP OpenView
Network Node Manager 6.41 Runtime Release Notes
§ http://ovweb.external.hp.com/ovnsmdps/pdf/HP-UX/C/ReleaseNotes/README.html