HP Operations Manager for UNIX Administrator’s Reference

Contents
5. About HPOM Interoperability
In this Chapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Interoperability in Flexible Management Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Mixed Flexible Management with OVO 7 and HPOM 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Interoperability Between HPOM for UNIX and HPOM for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Configuring HPOM Agents to Send Messages to Different Management Servers . 211
Forwarding HPOM for Windows Messages to HPOM for UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Synchronize Configuration Between Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
6. Integrating Applications into HPOM
In this Chapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
About Application Integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Assigning Applications to Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Integrating HP Applications into HPOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Integrating Applications into HPOM Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Integrating Applications into the Application Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Integrating HPOM Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
About the Plug-in for Integrated HP Software Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Integrating NNM into HPOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Integrating NNM Applications into HPOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Limitations of NNM Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
To Enable Operators to Manage IP Networks in the IP Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
To Integrate “Ethernet Traffic HP” as an OV Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
To Integrate “IP Activity Monitoring - Tables” as an OV Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
To Enable Operators to Control HPOM Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Integrating Applications as Broadcast Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Requirements for Integrating Applications as Broadcast Commands . . . . . . . . . . 230
Distributing Application to Managed Nodes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Integrating Applications as Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
About the Action Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Requirements for Integrating Applications as Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Distributing Actions to Managed Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Integrating Monitoring Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Requirements for Integrating Monitored Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Distributing Monitored Applications to Managed Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Monitoring Application Logfiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
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