topic Re: URGENT! what software packages monitor hardware problems? in Operating System - HP-UX

URGENT! what software packages monitor hardware problems?

paul courry — Thu, 16 Aug 2001 00:48:52 GMT

URGENT! I am giving a talk at HPWorld. A case study on our homegrown package which monitors hardware and Operating System for critical failures.

Let's make sure I am familiar with all the commercial packages that perform this function. If you know the names I'll RTFM.

BTW our homegrown package works by recognizing key console messages from *every* source and sending emails. Hey! It's an old concept, but we've taken it to an extreme.

Re: URGENT! what software packages monitor hardware problems?

Michael Tully — Thu, 16 Aug 2001 01:17:10 GMT

Hi Paul,

EMS (Event Monitoring System) and Predictive for starters.
EMS can be tied up with elm and various other messaging and Predictive dials back to HP for Support, where they call the SA.

HTH
-Michael

Re: URGENT! what software packages monitor hardware problems?

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 16 Aug 2001 01:20:22 GMT

Hi Paul:

HP's answer to this IT/O (IT Operations) or its new name VantagePoint Operations. It is part of the OpenView suite and includes Network Node Manager. It can monitor system logs, SNTP traps, and can look at various system activities through 'monitors'. Agents can reside on many different platforms (other unix, WinNT, W2K, Novell, MPE?) withing the IT/O cell. All report to the central manager and action can be taken automatically, users can be emailed/paged.

Regards, Clay

Re: URGENT! what software packages monitor hardware problems?

paul courry — Thu, 16 Aug 2001 01:34:57 GMT

Keep 'em coming people! These I already knew. What else is out there?

Re: URGENT! what software packages monitor hardware problems?

linuxfan — Thu, 16 Aug 2001 02:08:07 GMT

Hi Paul,

Some other commercial products: Tivoli(from IBM), Patrol (from BMC software), Unicenter(Computer Associate-partially).

-HTH
I am RU

Re: URGENT! what software packages monitor hardware problems?

Angus Crome — Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:47:51 GMT

SysEdge from concord does some hardware monitoring.

Re: URGENT! what software packages monitor hardware problems?

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:58:11 GMT

There is also a product called VANTAGE from ASP Technologies that does something very similar to your product Paul.

http://www.asptech.com/

Re: URGENT! what software packages monitor hardware problems?

paul courry — Sat, 18 Aug 2001 06:44:02 GMT

Let's consider this call closed...............