HP-UX and Linux Serviceguard Cluster Manageability, June 2007
Table Of Contents
- Purpose
- Audience
- Executive summary
- HP management solutions
- Achieving end-to-end management with HP System Management Homepage, HP Serviceguard Manager, HP Systems Insight Manager, and HP Operations Manager software
- Better together: Complementary management delivering the best return on IT
- Differences between HP Serviceguard Manager stand-alone and functional area versions
- HP Serviceguard Manager integration with HP Systems Insight Manager
- HP Serviceguard Manager integration with HP Network Node Manager
- HP Serviceguard Manager integration with HP Operations Manager
- Example
- Usage scenarios
- Statement on future direction
- Summary
- Appendix A
- For more information
Systems management
HP System Management Homepage
HP SMH is a web-based interface that consolidates and simplifies single-system management for HP
servers running HP-UX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. By aggregating the data
from HP web-based agents and management utilities, HP SMH provides an easy-to-use interface for
displaying hardware fault and status monitoring, performance data, system thresholds, diagnostics,
and software version control for an individual server. The Serviceguard Manager functional area
extends HP SMH to provide cluster configuration, administration, and monitoring. Optionally,
HP SMH integrates with HP SIM, the strategic platform for multisystem management from HP.
HP Systems Insight Manager
HP SIM is a cross-platform hardware platform management solution hosted on Windows, Linux, or
HP-UX that manages the life cycle of HP servers, storage, clients, printers, and other networked
devices. HP SIM helps IT organizations proactively manage system faults, assets, and hardware
configurations on servers and other HP devices from a single application. HP SIM provides a choice
of access modes through an intuitive web-based GUI or a command line interface (CLI).
HP SIM includes the following features:
• In-depth hardware life cycle management
• Hardware status and fault management
• Systems configuration information
• System software version control
• Inventory data collection
• Provided for and hosted on Windows, HP-UX, and Linux
Enterprise management
HP Operations Manager software
HP Operations Manager provides a single-pane-of-glass view for close and efficient control of events
happening across all systems, creating a “mission control” center for your entire distributed
environment. It monitors, filters, correlates, and responds to the thousands of events that occur daily
from network devices, systems, databases, and applications. Used to correlate the impact of IT
infrastructure on business-critical services, such as e-mail, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and e-
commerce, HP Operations Manager builds on an extensive policy base to monitor operating system
and application attributes and provide automated responses to common events.
HP Operations Manager features include:
• Multivendor systems management
• Network topology discovery and monitoring
• Operating system and application events and performance
• Service-level availability
• Heterogeneous platform support
HP Network Node Manager
HP Network Node Manager (NNM) provides robust standards-based management for heterogeneous
networks of all sizes that require advanced management of routers and switches, sophisticated root-
cause analysis, and distributed management for large or complex networks.
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