HP Operations Manager for UNIX Administrator’s Reference

Configuring HPOM
About Database Reports
tasks. Although automatically started every two hours by the HPOM
control manager, opcdbmsgmv may also be called manually for
troubleshooting purposes.
About Report Security
To enhance report security, HPOM restricts database access, Net8
access, and web reporting capabilities. You can customize these security
measures to match the particular needs of your organization.
Restricting Database Access
For report-writing tools, HPOM restricts database access to a single
database user, opc_report. This user has read-only access. The
opc_report user makes use of the Oracle report role opc_report_role.
This report role is a kind of database user profile. You can use the role to
enable additional users to access to the database so they can create
reports using information in the HPOM database tables.
Restricting Net8 Access
To accept net connections, Net8 requires a listener process running on
the database node. The listener process accepts connection requests from
any legal database user. If you want to tighten security still further,
there are products available (for example, from Oracle) that help improve
general communication security in this area. For more information, see
the Oracle product documentation.
Restricting Web Reporting
To restrict web reporting, HPOM requires you to place the web-reporting
server on the same side of your firewall as the HPOM database server.
Any other configuration is not supported.
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