URGENT! what software packages monitor hardware problems?

[paul courry]

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.

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

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

[A. Clay Stephenson]

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

[paul courry]

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

[linuxfan]

Hi Paul,

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

-HTH
I am RU

[Angus Crome]

SysEdge from concord does some hardware monitoring.

[Patrick Wallek]

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

http://www.asptech.com/

[paul courry]

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