HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 12)

About OVNM 12
1 About OVNM
1-1 What is OVNM?
HP Operations Agent for NonStop software (formerly called OpenView NonStop Server Management, and still
known as OVNM) is designed as an out-of-the-box solution to provide seamless integration for managing an HP
NonStop server-only environment or to bring NonStop server data into larger multi-platform management systems.
As its name implies, OVNM is designed to work with HP Operations software running on either the Microsoft ®
Windows ® or the UNIX ® operating system. However, note that OVNM’s management capabilities are
independent of HP Operations.
OVNM is an integrated set of modules which provides:
• Event Management
• Object Management
1-2 What OVNM Does?
OVNM offers a comprehensive business-driven management solution that helps you to monitor, control, report
on, and automate corrective actions, thus ensuring the health of all parts of your managed infrastructure. This
industry-leading software provides an efficient management environment in which to monitor your service-level
objectives.
OVNM brings NonStop server data into enterprise-wide management views, such as those driven by HP
Operations, IBM Tivoli, BMC Patrol, and others, and it also provides a complete NonStop server-only
management solution. And now with version 5.0, administrators will enjoy even more features for controlling
their NonStop-only environments.
With OVNM you can create specific business views for a given enterprise solution. These views not only enable
operations staff to detect business function problems quickly, but they also provide a systematic approach to
isolating the actual cause of a problem and associating that problem with a particular service.
HP Operations Agent for NonStop facilitates event integration, and policy/service template setup, along with
both operator-initiated and automated actions from multi-platform management consoles, or from its own OVNM
Console. It offers automatic discovery and mapping of the entire NonStop server environment with an online
graphic display of the status of every server object, giving you a cost-effective and time-saving way to
incorporate a NonStop environment rapidly and successfully into your service delivery infrastructure.
Figure 1-1 OVNM Enterprise Management
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