HP Business Availability Center 7.01 What's New Software version: 7.01 / 10 February 2008   This file provides information about new features and enhancement to HP Business Availability Center 7.01 and 7.0. HP Business Availability Center 7.01 HP Business Availability Center 7.01 contains bug fixes. HP Business Availability Center 7.0 Highlights Universal CMDB federation adapters for various 3rd Party CMDBs Improved Service Management with integrations with HP Service Center and HP Operations Center Visibility into Business Process with HP Business Process Insight integration Transaction breakdown in Business Process Monitor for multiple protocols Enterprise readiness and performance improvements Cross-Center Capabilities HP Business Availability Center and HP Operations Center Integrations Business Availability Center operators can contextually drill down from Dashboard to the OVO Console OVO Topology is displayed with status in Business Availability Center Dashboard OVO KPIs (Application, System, Network, and Security) are presented in real time in the Business Availability Center Dashboard HP Business Availability Center and HP Service Center Integrations SLM reporting for the OVO KPIs Breaches in Business Availability Center SLAs or Dashboard automatically open a ticket in HP Service Center Business Availability Center Dashboard displays Service Center ticket status alongside performance and availability KPIs in real time Business Availability Center SLM reports include Service Center KPIs (MTTR, MTBSI, and MTBF) Drill down in context from Business Availability Center Dashboard to Service Center Drill down from Problem Isolation to Service Center Applications Dashboard and Reporting New Business Service views displaying high level status over time and built on top of My BAC framework New Service Impact Report Service Dependency Mapping of back-office business processes from HP Business Process Insight Business Process KPIs displayed in real time in the Business Availability Center Dashboard Drill down from Business Availability Center Dashboard into individual business process transactions or business impact of IT performance issue. Additional support for Websphere and Weblogic portal subscription New Publishing capabilities of My BAC to WSRP compliant applications Improved My BAC administration capabilities UI and usability improvements for instance views Service Level Management New SLM forecasting capabilities to allow proactive management of SLAs Customized Service Reporting to allow flexible and ad-hoc reporting on Business Services Service provisioning using offering level templates to accelerate SLM on-boarding. End User Management Business Process Monitor Transaction breakdown in Business Process Monitor for all protocols except streaming ones Business Process Monitor now supports LoadRunner replay 9.0 New support for Remote Desktop Protocol New enhancements to the triage report to facilitate faster problem isolation by providing all relevant data in a single report. The improved report includes script and collector health, transaction breakdown, error summary, and raw data over time. Folder based permissions administration for the Common Repository Services Real User Monitor Business Process Recognition Define custom real user session properties for searching New Common Filter Definition that can be used with all Real User Monitor reports Improved performance Content cleansing for page snapshots Statistical analysis Meaningful names by title Improved filtering and data analysis Improved drill downs Direct URL access to reports Server time to first buffer added to breakdown New Event Analysis report Added I18N support Problem Isolation Problem Isolation is a significant improvement to and rebranding of the Problem Management application released in October 2006. The Problem Isolation application enables users to more quickly isolate the causes of problems and incidents occurring throughout their services, applications, and infrastructure to shorten mean time to resolution: Guided process for quickly finding the source of the problem Automated problem validation Rerun multiple monitors and scripts in parallel to assess the current state Easy grouping and sorting to quickly understand which items are in need of attention Intelligent selection of the critical items based on the Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB) Impact analysis to quickly understand which service level agreements are or might be impacted Intelligent analysis Summarizes large amounts of data Quickly triages problems Offers intelligent recommendation of next steps Layer analysis Offers breakdown of what infrastructure layers are problematic Shows deviation from normal operation Drill down into deeper tier-specific data Suspect lists Provides most likely suspects based on a holistic view of availability, performance, change and relationships On-demand diagnostic monitors to gather more information Easy-to-use administration and configuration Ticketing integration with HP ServiceCenter software (formerly Peregrine) Business Availability Center for SAP Applications Improved Change Impact discovery algorithm to enable more intelligent detection of transport impact on SAP applications and transactions. System Availability Management New and improved System Availability Management to provide enterprise-class management of system monitors High-level cumulative and discreet view of SiteScopes server statistics for ease of administration Authentication and authorization features to facilitate single sign-on to multiple SiteScopes from Business Availability Center SiteScope to SiteScope copying capabilities to allow for copying and pasting between SiteScope servers, including implicit remote machines definition copying Global Search and Replace Wizard improvements allowing performing bulk changes to thousands of monitors in one action, across multiple SiteScope servers New SiteScope sync functionality which allows for synchronization of templates, categories, preferences and files across managed SiteScope servers Usability improvements in the Monitoring Deployment Wizard to allow for a more robust, easier, and more manageable workflow to deploy monitors by using templates Data reduction features to reduce the amount of data sent from SiteScope to Business Availability Center to improve performance and capacity Accelerated integration of Enterprise Management Systems (EMS) data and topology into Business Availability Center using the EMS Integrations administrative platform Improved cross-SiteScope reporting visualization, including My BAC display New SiteScope Availability KPI in Business Availability Center Dashboard for clear notification of SiteScope to Business Availability Center communication status Platform New and improved UI to manage users Improved performance and capacity Improved system health console to manage and monitor the health of Business Availability Center New Upgrade Wizard CMDB usability improvements Multi-locale UI support to broaden I18N capabilities Guidance Movies Guidance movies are Flash-based demonstrations that introduce you to specific features of HP Business Availability Center. To open a movie, click a link below. The guidance movies are also located on the HP Business Availability Center DVD in the GuidanceMovies directory. The following movies are available: Upgrade Service Reports Service Level Management System Availability Management CMDB Instance View HP SiteScope 9.0 New server-centric report, enabling better tracking and triage of system problems from a server rather than a monitor perspective Improved alerting capabilities, using quicker-to-implement multi-action alerts - define one alert, and have multiple actions assigned to it, including functionality such as escalation and closure New VMWare ESX monitor for managing virtualized environments New best practices out-of-the-box with Windows, AIX, Linux, Solaris, and .NET solution templates New UI completed to reflect all of the classic UI's capabilities Revamped New Monitor Creation screen, enabling faster creation of discrete monitors SiteScope tree filter for quick focus on requested items Personalized display of monitoring data in the Dashboard using KPI tooltip customization HP Diagnostics 7.0 New application entity to allow better visibility and management of composite applications in enterprise environments Enhanced Portal support New MQ Collector New single sign-on (SSO) functionality for authentication and authorization, and support for role based permissions New threshold recommendations capabilities Additional platforms supported Business Availability Center Documentation New topic-based documentation organizes information by concepts, tasks, reference information, and user interface descriptions Portal pages facilitate location of information topics Get Started checklist available from Documentation Library home page provides flow for getting up and running with Business Availability Center Live news page enables key updates and announcements to customers in real time Legal Notices © Copyright 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. 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