need a tool for system management

[Ravi_8]

Hi, all

Management in my company had told me to look out for a tool which gives complete information about system usage(Hard disks/RAM/Processor usage)on weekly/monthly/quarterly basis for all platforms (hp-ux,aix,solaris,linux,windows).

If any of you knows about such tool request you to lend me

thanx

[David_246]

Hi Ravi,

I just had a meeting with HP about HP Openview.
It has all things you mention.
If you have some money to spent please make an apointment with the Sales men.

Regs David

[Stuart Abramson_2]

HP PerfView on a central server with HP GlancePlusPak MeasureWare on all clients.

They call MeasureWare "OpenView Performance Agent" now, I think.

The products that we run here (on only HP servers) are:

B3693AA GlancePlus/UX
B3701AA GlancePlus/UX Pak
B4967AA HP MeasureWare Server Agent for s800 11.00
B7407AA OV VP Perf. Manager (formerly PerfView Analyzer)
B7408AA OV VP Performance Monitor (PerfView Monitor)
B7466AA OV VP Oracle SPI Advanced Server

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi Ravi,
in this thread many many good (and at no cost) answer !!!


http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xd5bc2507d2147f42ba13c2443097052b,00.html


Massimo


fancy how arguments are circular and pretty near....

[Pete Randall]

Ravi,

Though I have no specific experience worth relating with any of these, CA-UniCenter (or TNG, as I think it's now called), and Tivoli come to mind, along with OpenView, of course.

All of the above are expensive and difficult to set up, configure and operate, but good at what they do.


Pete

[Steven E. Protter]

Your best bet for HP-UX and Linux may be SCM.

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8339BA3.0

SEP

[Patrick Wallek]

If you have an Openview Performance Agent (Measureware) on the machines, then there is also a product called OpenView Reporter, which has to run on a Win2k machine, that will query all the Performance Agents and make graphs available via a browser so that anyone in the company can see them.

Be aware though that the Openview Reporter software is around $30,000 US dollars.

OV Reporter:
http://www.openview.hp.com/products/reporter/index.html

Performance Manager/Monitor/Agent:
http://www.openview.hp.com/products/ovperf/index.html

[RolandH]

Hi Ravi,

this ia very short question and the answer is more complex as you think.

You said the management needs this report.
First of all management is not interested in nacked historical performance data. Believe me they will not understand that kind of report.

So you need a tool which must be able to create technical, decision and management reports with the collected data. And I can see you have a very heterogenous environment that will make it more complex.

The only thing I can do is to give a small web-page link to an HP site, because of I don't think taht this forum server has enough disk space to answer this question.

http://www.openview.hp.com/solutions/pm/index.html

Regards
Roland

[Mark Landin]

Ravi,

Check out the performance tools at www.lund.com. (It even does MPE, the one nobody likes to talk about anymore!)

[Elena Leontieva]

Hi Ravi,

In our datacenter the management tried to implement the CA Unicenter TNG and Agents technology just for that same purpose several years ago. In my opinion this project failed for many reasons... One of them is that the CA UNIX parts and their support are not all that great. On a UNIX side, we've experienced a lot of trouble installing and managing CA products. Also if you have different groups managing UNIX and Windows, - it is always going to be an issue.
These agents were pooling the information off the Unix servers and I did not even had an access to these reports.

These are just my thoughts.
Elena.