Integration of HIM with NNM and OVOW

[William Seeley_2]

BACKGROUND:

I manage a group of HP servers with various releases of CIM and HIM, all of which have my NNM server as a trap destination. However some of these servers also have OVOW agents deployed to them. The NNM server has the Insight Integration for HP Openview NNM 3.0 installed, which has updated trapd.conf so that HIM traps are properly formatted in the NNM Alarm Browser. I also have the OVOW 7.27 WINOSSPI HP Insight Manager policies deployed to the NNM server to forward the HIM traps to the OVOW server. The latter handles email notifications, service mapping for my support center, etc.

PROBLEM:

The trapd.conf entries on NNM and the rules in the WINOSSPI policies that forward HIM traps to OVOW don't appear to be in sync. The NNM server receives some traps that don't get forwarded to OVOW because there is no applicable rule (and I have unmatched traps turned off to avoid event storms). While I can add these rules after the fact, I then have to manually notify my HW support engineers of possible problems.

QUESTION: How can I automatically keep NNM and OVOW in sync with HIM and with each other?

Bill