HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Windows Data sheet HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Windows is the key to managing your Microsoft Windows environment from a service perspective. It works in tandem with market-leading HP OpenView solutions such as HP OpenView Operations or HP OpenView Performance to give you control over your Windows Servers that support the core of your business. HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Windows helps keep your mission critical Windows server highly available, performing to expectations and aligned with your business priorities. Key features and benefits Provides pre-packaged policies that allow you to immediately start to monitoringthehealth and performance of windows serversin your network Ability to discover system infrastructure and applications that are available on Windows nodes Helps to gain control of remote Windows Servers Quick time to value through pre-defined monitoring policies, pre-defined management tools, discovery component Enables customers to integrate Windows servers into their service-oriented operation solutions Flexibility in policy assignment (both centralized and local policies possible) In many enterprise IT environments, Windows servers play a critical part to deliver of IT and business services. HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Windows OS brings true root cause analysis for many of the server-related issues both proactively and reactively. This helps IT organizations to meet their service level agreements for business-critical IT services. 1
Product Functionality Overview The HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Windows brings market-leading HP OpenView management and control capabilities to Windows server environments. It enables IT organizations to perform IT service management, event management and performance monitoring on their Windows Servers and applications, in support of their business critical processes. Event/Action Based on HP OpenView Operations, the HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Windows monitors key operational activities, proactively alarms critical situations when the thresholds are met, and provide guidance for resolution of problems, spanning the following areas: Basic availability monitoring Monitor disks Monitor memory Monitor Network and CPU Utilization Monitors events, processes and performance for Microsoft Windows core components (Active Directory Server, Terminal Server, Network Infrastructure and Operating System health) Basic monitoring of events and processes for key Microsoft back office applications (Cluster Server and Windows Cluster, Message Queue Server, Transaction Server, IIS, Windows Terminal Services, Certificate server, Microsoft Operations Manager (2000 & 2005), and System Management Server (2003)) 1 Monitors events, processes and performance for Microsoft Internet Information Server and Microsoft Site Server Monitors events for antivirus applications from McAfee and Norton Event forwarding from Insight Manager, HP Systems Insight Manager 2, and Dell OpenManage Monitors the Microsoft Cluster Server environments that cover Microsoft Cluster Servers, resource groups, networks, and shared disks; also included are applications to manage and administer Microsoft Cluster Servers. monitoring events for backup and storage applications from Veritas 1 Separate Smart Plug-ins for several applications are also available with full manageable capability. For more information visit: http://www.managementsoftware.hp.com/products/spi/index.html 2 From Jun 2006, a separate integration between HP OpenView Operations and HP System Insight Manager will be available through HP OpenView SIM Integration product. This functionality will move out of Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Windows. 2
Performance HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Windows re-uses the market-leading performance data collection capabilities of HP OpenView Performance Agent and HP OpenView Operations to avoid unnecessary monitoring overhead. 3
Service Views HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Windows offers auto-discovery for the Windows OS layer and visualization of the OS service topology, comprising more than 35 object types and their dependencies: File system Cluster packages 4
Technical specifications System requirements Hardware Software Supported platforms, servers, and applications Please refer to the system requirements of HP OpenView Operations Please refer to the system requirements of HP OpenView Operations Platform support 3 Other Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT Microsoft Cluster Server Microsoft Message Queue Server Microsoft Transaction Server Microsoft Internet Information Server Windows Terminal Services Microsoft Certificate Server Microsoft Operations Manager Microsoft System Management Server Dell Open Manage Required HP OpenView products Other recommended Products HP OpenView Operations HP OpenView Performance HP OpenView Reporter HP Systems Insight Manager HP OpenView Service Information Portal 3 For the current list of platforms supported please refer to the Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Windows support matrix at http://support.openview.hp.com/sc/support_matrices.jsp 5
Why HP OpenView for managing your Windows Servers? Market-leading solution for event/availability management according to leading analysts. Solutions are based on best-in-class management software platform (HP OpenView) and HP s leadership in IT Service Management Supports management of Windows Operating system as well as applications from single console. Comprehensive solution including software and services. For more information For more information about Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Windows visit http://www.managementsoftware.hp.com/products/spi/spi_server/index.html HP Financial Services provides innovative financing and financial asset management programs to help you cost-effectively acquire, manage, and ultimately retire your HP solutions. For more information on these services, contact your HP sales representative or visit www.hp.com/go/hpfinancialservices. HP Customer Support provides a broad spectrum of services to commercial and enterprise customers with performance and availability services, such as proactive mission-critical services, and services ranging from deployment to support management of the entire IT infrastructure, including HP and multivendor environments. For more information on these services, contact your HP sales representative or visit www.hp.com/hps/support. Microsoft, Windows and Windows NT are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. For more information, visit managementsoftware.hp.com 03/2006 6