OpenView Operations (OVO) is a product of Hewlett-Packard (HP). It is built upon the foundation of their Network Node Manager (NNM) product. Whereas NNM tends to be network-monitoring focused, gathering most of its data via SNMP traps from devices or hosts, OVO tends to be a host and/or application focused monitoring product.

Instead of passively accepting SNMP traps from devices, OVO has an active software component, known as an agent, that is installed on the various hosts monitored. These agents can then be used to provide support for monitoring and automation type activities. The agents all report to a centralized server, commonly called a Management Server.

OVO monitoring can be done in several forms. It has the capabilities to monitor log files, run scheduled actions at pre-determined times and take actions based upon success or failure, customized watches for processes looking for too many or too few copies of a process running, or even SNMP traps. A superset of regular expression pattern matching is available, allowing for the setting of variables within the pattern as well.

All events are generally associated with an OVO Alert, which is sent to the management server. End users, called Operators, can then log into OVO, either via a Motif GUI on UNIX hosts, or a Java based GUI for UNIX or Microsoft Windows hosts. Specific users can have specific roles assigned to them, allowing for the filtering of alarms that are relevant for the person's role within the organization.

Any alert created can also have an action associated with them. These actions generally come in two forms, Automatic or Operator Initiated. Automatic actions will execute any time an alert happens. An Operator Initiated action requires the Operator to specifically start the action.

OpenView Operations (OVO) is a product of Hewlett-Packard (HP). It is built upon the foundation of their Network Node Manager (NNM) product. Whereas NNM tends to be network-monitoring focused, gathering most of its data via SNMP traps from devices or hosts, OVO tends to be a host and/or application focused monitoring product.

Instead of passively accepting SNMP traps from devices, OVO has an active software component, known as an agent, that is installed on the various hosts monitored. These agents can then be used to provide support for monitoring and automation type activities. The agents all report to a centralized server, commonly called a Management Server.

OVO monitoring can be done in several forms. It has the capabilities to monitor log files, run scheduled actions at pre-determined times and take actions based upon success or failure, customized watches for processes looking for too many or too few copies of a process running, or even SNMP traps. A superset of regular expression pattern matching is available, allowing for the setting of variables within the pattern as well.

All events are generally associated with an OVO Alert, which is sent to the management server. End users, called Operators, can then log into OVO, either via a Motif GUI on UNIX hosts, or a Java based GUI for UNIX or Microsoft Windows hosts. Specific users can have specific roles assigned to them, allowing for the filtering of alarms that are relevant for the person's role within the organization.

Any alert created can also have an action associated with them. These actions generally come in two forms, Automatic or Operator Initiated. Automatic actions will execute any time an alert happens. An Operator Initiated action requires the Operator to specifically start the action.


Editions :

1- Operations for UNIX
Overview
Your company's business success relies on high-quality IT services and IT infrastructure agility. To keep your IT services available and well performing, you need a proven operations management solution that gives you control over your ever-changing IT infrastructure. That solution is HP OpenView Operations for UNIX.

Operations for UNIX discovers, monitors, controls and reports on the availability and performance of your heterogeneous, large-scale IT environment. It consolidates information for all IT components that control your business: network, systems, storage, databases, and applications. With its service-driven approach, it shows what IT problems affect your business processes, helping you to focus on what's most important for your company's business success.
   
Features

• Highly reliable, secure, and scalable management infrastructure based on intelligent, autonomous agents and flexible manager-of-manager communication
• Immediate visibility into the status of application services and into the business impact of IT infrastructure availability and performance problems
• Consistent policy configuration and fault management process across a broad range of operating system platforms and applications
• Customizable event filtering, correlation and enrichment reduce the noise of unimportant events
• Customizable Java-based operator console for remote, role-based operations management
• Consolidates events from HP and non-HP management tools

2- Operations for Windows
Overview
Stable. Efficient. Agile. Adaptive. Businesses today have high expectations for their IT services and those who provide them. HP OpenView Operations for Windows helps you get your business where it wants to be. It provides award-winning and comprehensive Windows-based event management, proactive performance monitoring, and automated alerting, reporting and graphing for Windows, Linux and UNIX systems, middleware and applications. And it does all of this from a unique Service Driven Operations perspective. Get control of your infrastructure. Make your IT services more efficient and reliable. Synchronize your business with IT operations. Get what you expect: with HP OpenView Operations for Windows.
   
Features

• Service Driven Operations management: a unique software-based IT service delivery approach to enable synchronizing business and IT
• Centralized point of control for the network, servers, operating systems, applications and services for correlating and managing all the IT infrastructure components of a business service
• Extensive out-of-the-box policy-based management intelligence for enhanced time-to-value
• Automated service discovery, policy deployment and actions to enable busy IT personnel to focus on more strategic initiatives
• Enterprise management scalability (for environments from 10 to 1000+ nodes), high availability (e.g. cluster support), and flexibility (e.g. a sophisticated manager of manager concept)
• Microsoft Windows look-and-feel

3- Operations for Windows Limited Edition
    
Overview
HP OpenView Operations for Windows Limited Edition is a special service driven operations management offering designed to fit the needs of medium sized environments with up to 30 nodes.

This easy to use and reliable solution designed for a single management server environment provides everything you need to get your adaptive enterprise started: sophisticated event and performance management from Windows, out-of the box management capabilities for essential Microsoft Windows and ORACLE applications (via Smart Plug-ins), seamless HP OpenView integration — a complete management product at a price hard to beat.
   
Features

• Sophisticated event and performance management from Windows for 20 or 30 nodes depending on license purchased
• Centralized point of control for the network, servers, operating systems, applications and services for correlating and managing all the IT infrastructure components of a business service
• Ease of use
• Microsoft Windows look-and-feel
• Extensive out-of-the-box application management for enhanced time-to-value. HP OpenView Operations for Windows Limited Edition includes one each of the following HP OpenView Smart Plug-ins for:
• Microsoft Exchange
• Microsoft Active Directory
• Microsoft Virtual Server
• Microsoft SQL Server
• ORACLE
• Strong integration with other HP OpenView products