HP Microsoft Operations Manager Software - Manual (Page 5)

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Overview
About this guide
This guide is designed for system administrators who use the HP Management Packs 1.3 for Microsoft®
Operations Manager 2005, Insight Management Agents, and other HP applications and tools to manage
the operations of HP ProLiant and Integrity servers within a MOM environment.
In this guide, the HP ProLiant Management Pack 1.3 for MOM 2005 and the HP Integrity Management
Pack 1.2 for MOM 2005 are referred to collectively as the "HP Management Packs 1.3 for MOM 2005"
where functionality overlaps.
You should be familiar with the configuration and operation of Microsoft® Windows®, Microsoft®
Operations Manager 2005 SP1, and the Insight Management Agents. Because of the potential risk of
data loss, only individuals who are experienced with using this software should implement the procedures
described in this guide.
HP assumes that this level of expertise is available to customers using the HP Management Packs 1.3 for
Microsoft® Operations Manager 2005 User Guide. If the information included in this guide seems overly
complex, HP recommends further review of the Microsoft® product documentation and the HP
Management Packs 1.3 for MOM 2005 product documentation.
Introduction
HP delivers new management packs that complement and extend MOM 2005, integrating alert
processing, state monitoring, and hardware resource lifecycle management for HP ProLiant and Integrity
servers.
Designed specifically for MOM 2005, the HP Management Packs 1.3 for MOM 2005 provide
predefined policies, event processing rules, and tasks, which enable administrators to proactively
streamline IT operations and ensure increased systems availability by monitoring Microsoft® Windows®
environments and HP server hardware platforms through a common MOM console.
The HP Management Packs 1.3 for MOM 2005 automatically discover and group HP ProLiant and
Integrity servers by hardware platform type. Default policies highlight the state of HP hardware and
management software components and present a comprehensive collection of server attributes that
provides a consolidated view of system status and configuration data. Predefined event processing rules
build on the functionality of the HP Insight Management Agents to display Windows® Event Log entries
for HP server hardware as alerts in the MOM 2005 Operator Console, including real-time and prefailure
event definitions.