HP OpenView: Operations Software for UNIX Administrators - Part I

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About this class

This five-day course covers the operational basics and concepts of the OpenView Operations (OVO) product including the JavaTM console, message sources and log files, threshold monitors, the message interceptor and administration and configuration of the product. The course is five days in duration, 60% lecture 40% lab.

Who will the lesson benefit?

This course should be taken by system and network administrators, and consultants. It may be useful to system architects, integrators and planners.

What delegates will learn

After completing this course the student should be able to:

• Use the OVO operator interface
• Use the OVO administrator interface
• Use the OVO Java console
• Configure users and profiles
• Configure message templates and conditions
• Identify the key OVO utilities
• Troubleshoot OVO and isolate problems at the rudimentary level

What prerequisites are required

• Fundamentals of the UNIX system (51434S) or equivalent experience
• HP-UX System & Network Admin. I (H3064S) or equivalent experience
• POSIX Shell Programming (H5888S) or equivalent experience

Contents of this class

Service Management

• Service management components

Introduction to OVO

• Phases for event processing
• Flexible management concepts
• The open API

OVO Operator

• The operator's role/operator GUI
• Main windows
• Using views

The Java Based GUI

• The JAVA GUI main window
• Filtering messages or views

The OVO Administrator

• The role of the OVO administrator
• The administrator GUI
• Message groups, applications and application groups

Node Configuration

• Node, Node Group, Node Hierarchy

Configuring Operator Workspaces

• Operator responsibilities/capabilities
• Adding a new operator/user profiles

Introduction to Templates and Template Administration

• Configuration steps
• Message processing/conditions
• Configuration window/software and template distribution

Template Components

• Pattern matching expressions and rules
• opcpat - the pattern matching tester
• OVO Variables
• Custom Message Attributes

Message Interceptor "opcmsg"

• Launching a OVO message
• Message match evaluation
• Message interceptor template configuration

Log File Encapsulator

• Log Files
• Logfile template configuration windows
• Logfile encapsulator process flow

Message Conditions

• Message condition definitions
• Processing on the managed node
• Duplicate message suppression

SNMP Trap Interception

• Event interception with OVO
• Benefits of distributed interception
• Configuring OVO for distributed event interception

Threshold Monitoring

• Threshold monitors
• Monitoring interface
• Customer specific scripts

Embedded Performance Component

• OVO Embedded Performance Component features
• Metrics
• Threshold comparison using Threshold Monitoring Template

Actions and External Services

• Actions, distributing actions, processing automatic actions
• External services

Scheduled Actions Template

• Purpose and properties
• Configuration window
• Configuration of a message window

OVO Backup

• Offline and Online OVO Backup

Server Administration

• Configuring the management server
• Administration tasks

Basic OVO Troubleshooting

• Possible trouble areas
• Management server error logfiles
• Tracing mechanism for OVO services

HP OpenView: Operations Software for UNIX Administrators - Part I / H4356S

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