HP Management Platform Synchronization Installation and Reference Manual
Contents
Contents
Revision History ...................................................................................................................................................1
Figures and Tables
Figures .................................................................................................................................................................5
Tables...................................................................................................................................................................5
Conventions ......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Frequently Used Acronyms..................................................................................................................................6
Related Documents..............................................................................................................................................6
1 Introduction to MPS
1-2 Document Structure .......................................................................................................................................9
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 Adding one or more OVO servers................................................................................................................16
3-3 Changing the default OVO server................................................................................................................ 18
3-4 Deleting an OVO server...............................................................................................................................19
3-5 MPS settings................................................................................................................................................20
3-6-1 Adding a Monitored Device ................................................................................................................. 21
4 OVO Collection Extensions
4-1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 23
4-1-1 Node Requirements............................................................................................................................. 23
4-1-2 Using OVO to collect incidents............................................................................................................ 24
4-1-2-1 Event Collection and Incident Generation for the HP-UX Platform ............................................ 24
4-1-2-2 Event Collection and Incident Generation for the Solaris Platform............................................. 25
4-1-2-3 Event Collection and Incident Generation for the AIX Platform.................................................. 25
4-1-2-4 Submitting Received OVO Messages as Incidents to HP .......................................................... 25
4-1-2-5 Registration of devices ............................................................................................................... 25
4-2 Managing OVO Monitored Devices on the CMS.......................................................................................... 26
4-2-1 Managing OVO monitored devices by HP SIM ...................................................................................26
4-2-1-1 Adding a monitored device by HP SIM....................................................................................... 27
4-2-1-2 Edit a monitored device in HP SIM............................................................................................. 28
4-2-1-3 Removing a device monitored by HP SIM.................................................................................. 29
4-2-2 Managing MPS devices monitored by OSEM .....................................................................................30
4-2-2-1 Adding an OSEM monitored device ........................................................................................... 31
4-2-2-2 Edit an OSEM monitored device ................................................................................................ 32
4-2-2-3 Remove an OSEM monitored device ........................................................................................ 33
4-2-3 Installing the Volume Data Load.......................................................................................................... 33
4-2-4 Using the Volume Data Load of the Managed System Web Page...................................................... 34
4-3 Installing MPS on the OVO Management Server.........................................................................................35
4-3-1 Installing MPS on the OVO Management Server on HP-UX............................................................... 35
4-3-1-1 Access the Install Package......................................................................................................... 35
4-3-1-2 Using a Password with the Install Package................................................................................ 35
4-3-1-3 Installing the OVO Agent Templates and Applications............................................................... 35
4-3-1-4 Structure of the OVO Agent Template Groups........................................................................... 36
4-3-1-5 Deploying OVO Agent Templates to OVO Managed Nodes ...................................................... 37
4-3-1-6 Deploying the OVO Agent Templates to HP-UX Devices .......................................................... 43
4-3-1-7 Deploying the OVO Agent Templates to Solaris Devices........................................................... 43
4-3-1-8 Deploying the OVO Agent Templates to AIX Devices................................................................ 43
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