HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Overview HP-UX 11i v3 (B3921-90011, September 2010)

NOTE: HP Systems Insight Manager is capable of managing large groups of systems but for
Enterprise-wide operations HP recommends the more powerful OpenView Suite of tools.
HP Systems Insight Manager is Based on the WBEM Open Standard
The HP Systems Insight Manager is based on the Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
standard, a set of technologies designed to consolidate the management of multiple servers of
possibly varying OS types, as well as several other open standards.
Supplies Information to OpenView
As your need grow, the HP Systems Insight Manager can grow with you. You can expand its
capabilities with extensions to SIM, you can configure additional systems into numerous
management domains, and when you are ready for enterprise-level management you can use
the HP Systems Insight Manager to feed information into the OpenView Suite of products. See
“Tools for Managing an Entire Enterprise” (page 99).
Tools for Managing an Entire Enterprise
When your business grows to enterprise status, or (regardless of size) you need to allocate/control
your computing and networking resources based on:
• Higher levels of automation than are provided by the System Management Homepage and
HP Systems Insight Manager
• Service Level Objectives
• The need to control multi-vendor environments (for example, networks of systems that
include systems from IBM, Sun Microsystems, and other vendors)
HP provides an entire group of products, collectively known as the OpenView Suite, that will
address these needs.
The OpenView Suite includes, but is not limited to technologies for:
• Transaction Monitoring
• Software Deployment
• Patch Management
• Hardware Node Management (via the HP Systems Insight Manager)
• Network Node Management
• Oracle Database Management
• Help Desk Support Services
• Storage Management
• (Resource) Usage Management
• Workload Management
• Virtual Machine Management
The complete list of OpenView products is located at http://www.openview.hp.com/products
Other System Management Tools
There are also other tools to assist you with various aspects of administering an HP-UX system.
These include:
EVM - Event Management
In HP-UX 11i version 3, the kernel, software applications, and the server hardware can post
events to the Event Management Daemon. Users can then subscribe to these events in order to be
alerted to occurrences of events that concern them.
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