HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Overview

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 121).
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
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