A.05.80 HP Management Platform Synchronization Installation and Reference Manual (July 2012, 5900-0894)

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Revision History ................................................................................................................................................... 1
Conventions ......................................................................................................................................................... 5
Frequently Used Acronyms .................................................................................................................................. 5
Related Documents .............................................................................................................................................. 5
1 Introduction to MPS
1-2 Document Structure ....................................................................................................................................... 8
1-3-1 Viewing and Updating Incidents in OVO ............................................................................................. 11
1-3-1-1 Sending Incident Information to OVO ................................................................................................... 12
1-3-1-2 Processing Incidents in OVO ................................................................................................................ 13
2 MPS Installation Prerequisites
3 Installing and Configuring MPS
3-1 Using the RSSWM and the Installer ............................................................................................................. 15
3-2 Configuring MPS .......................................................................................................................................... 16
3-3 Managing CMS monitored devices in OVO ................................................................................................. 20
3-3-1 Adding a Monitored Device ................................................................................................................. 20
4 OVO Collection Extensions
4-1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 22
4-1-1 Node Requirements ............................................................................................................................. 22
4-1-2 Using OVO to collect incidents ............................................................................................................ 23
4-1-2-1 Event Collection and Incident Generation for the HP-UX Platform ....................................................... 23
4-1-2-2 Event Collection and Incident Generation for the Solaris Platform ....................................................... 24
4-1-2-3 Event Collection and Incident Generation for the AIX Platform ............................................................ 24
4-1-2-4 Submitting Received OVO Messages as Incidents to HP .................................................................... 24
4-1-2-5 Registration of devices ......................................................................................................................... 24
4-2 Managing OVO Monitored Devices on the CMS .......................................................................................... 25
4-2-1 Managing OVO monitored devices by HP SIM ................................................................................... 25
4-2-1-1 Adding a monitored device by HP SIM ................................................................................................. 26
4-2-1-2 Edit a monitored device in HP SIM ....................................................................................................... 27
4-2-1-3 Removing a device monitored by HP SIM ............................................................................................ 28
4-2-2 Managing MPS devices monitored by WEBES ................................................................................... 29
4-2-2-1 Manage sites in WEBES ....................................................................................................................... 29
4-2-2-2 Manage contacts in WEBES ................................................................................................................. 30
4-2-2-3 Manage entities in WEBES ................................................................................................................... 31
4-3 Installing MPS on the OVO Management Server ......................................................................................... 32
4-3-1 Installing MPS on the OVO Management Server on HP-UX ............................................................... 32
4-3-1-1 Access the Install Package ................................................................................................................... 32
4-3-1-2 Using a Password with the Install Package .......................................................................................... 32
4-3-1-3 Installing the OVO Agent Templates and Applications ......................................................................... 32
4-3-1-4 Structure of the OVO Agent Template Groups ..................................................................................... 33
4-3-1-5 Deploying OVO Agent Templates to OVO Managed Nodes ................................................................ 34
4-3-1-6 Deploying the OVO Agent Templates to HP-UX Devices ..................................................................... 40
4-3-1-7 Deploying the OVO Agent Templates to Solaris Devices ..................................................................... 40
4-3-1-8 Deploying the OVO Agent Templates to AIX Devices .......................................................................... 40
4-3-1-9 Register Monitored Devices with MPS.................................................................................................. 41
4-3-2 Installing MPS on the OVO Management Server on Windows ........................................................... 43
4-3-2-1 Copying collection templates and migration scripts .............................................................................. 43
4-3-2-2 Unzipping the zip files ........................................................................................................................... 43
4-3-2-3 Migrating all templates to OVO Windows ............................................................................................. 44
4-3-2-4 Deploy policies to monitored systems................................................................................................... 45
4-3-2-5 Configure MPS service to work together with OVO .............................................................................. 46
4-3-2-6 Run "RegisterDevice" tool on nodes ..................................................................................................... 47