HP Operations Manager i Release Notes

for the Windows operating system

Software version: 8.10

Publication date: 21 September 2011

This document is an overview of the changes made to HP Operations Manager i (HP OMi). It contains important information that is not included in the product guides or the online help. You can find information about the following in this document:

What's New in This Release?
Supported Environments
Installation Notes
Limitations
Known Problems
Documentation Updates
Support
Legal

What's New in This Release?

This release of HP Operations Manager i has many new and exciting features. The most significant features are:

What is HP OMi?

HP Operations Manager i (HP OMi) is an event and performance manager that creates an operations bridge between your business service management and your infrastructure management. HP OMi is the central point where all your IT infrastructure monitoring comes together in one console from which you can manage and resolve the problems in your IT environment.

HP OMi presents an end-to-end view of every event in the IT infrastructure and displays monitoring alerts to HP OMi operators. This information enables you to establish structured processes for solving problems. Using HP OMi, you can deal with most of the events in your infrastructure by running HP OMi tools and HPOM actions on any system where a problem has occurred.

HP OMi increases productivity and efficiency by finding and solving issues before business service quality degrades, allowing subject matter experts to focus on strategic activities.

How Does HP OMi Help You to Manage Your IT Environment?

HP OMi helps you to manage your IT environment using the following main features:

For a detailed description of HP OMi, see the HP Operations Manager i Concepts Guide located at this web site: HP Software Product Manuals.

Supported Environments

See the HP Operations Manager i Installation and Deployment Guide for the hardware and software prerequisites.

HP may add support for more environments after initial release. You can find the latest version of the Support Matrix for this product that lists all supported environments at this location: HP OMi Support Matrix.

Note: Most of the support areas require that you register as an HP Passport user and sign in. Many also require an active support contract. To find more information about support access levels, go to: Access levels.

To register for an HP Passport ID, go to: HP  Passport Registration.

Windows 2008 Support

HP Operations Manager i (HP OMi) can now be installed on systems running Microsoft Windows 2008 in conjunction with HP Business Availability Center (BAC) 8.04.

To install HP OMi on a supported Windows 2008 system, complete the following steps:

  1. Before installing HP OMi, make sure that you have installed BAC 8.04 in accordance with the following documents:
  2. Install HP OMi in accordance with Installing HP OMi, chapter 4 of the HP Operations Manager i Installation and Deployment Guide.

    Do no yet start the HP OMi configuration steps described in chapter 5, Configuring HP OMi.

  3. Download the OMI_00001 patch from the SSO website: http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/document/KM1026746.
  4. Install the HP OMi patch OMI_00001 after installing HP OMi 8.10 on the BAC 8.04 installation, as follows:
    1. Back up your system before installing the patch.
    2. Stop the BSM platform on all servers.
    3. Extract the OMI_00001.zip archive to the %TOPAZ_HOME% directory on every BSM server host system.
    4. Rename the following file on the Data Processing Server:

      %TOPAZ_HOME%\opr\bin\createJmsQueue-BAC804.bat

      to

      %TOPAZ_HOME%\opr\bin\createJmsQueue.bat

  5. Configure HP OMi in accordance with Configuring HP OMi, chapter 5 of the HP Operations Manager i Installation and Deployment Guide.

Installation Notes

Installation requirements, as well as instructions for installing HP Operations Manager i, are documented in the HP Operations Manager i Installation and Deployment Guide, provided in Portable Document Format (PDF) format. You can find this guide on-line at the HP Software Product Manuals website. For information on how to find a specific document, see Documentation Updates.

The HP Business Service Management (BSM) platform is the foundation on which you install HP OMi. You install the BSM platform by installing HP Business Availability Center (BAC), and enabling the BSM platform with a valid HP OMi license.

HINT: Port conflicts can result in BAC not starting. To avoid port conflicts between BAC and the HPOM agent, if it is installed, reserve the ports required by BAC as described in the HP Business Availability Center Deployment Guide, section titled: Reserving Ports. You can find this guide on-line at the HP Software Product Manuals website. For information on how to find a specific document, see Documentation Updates

Limitations

This release contains the following limitations.

Known Problems

This release contains the following unresolved problems and their workarounds, organized under the following operational areas:

Installation and Performance
Initial Configuration, Content Packs, and Synchronization
CI Resolution
General User Interface
Event Perspective
Health Perspective
Graphing
Filtering
Indicators Manager
Tools Manager
Maintenance

Installation and Performance

Initial Configuration and Synchronization

CI Resolution

BSM uses TQL queries to describe what CIs to get from the ODB in order to relate the CIs to the events that BSM receives. The out-of-the-box queries that BSM provides are necessarily broader than you probably need. You can improve performance by narrowing the scope of the out-of-the-box query so that it pulls only the CIs that you require from the ODB. The resolver tries to identify the most appropriate CI from the ODB by comparing event attributes and event resolver hints with attributes of discovered CIs in the resolver cache. Because no two managed environments are identical, there is no universal resolver definition. Instead, you should try to include only those CIs in your custom resolver cache to which you expect to map events. If you never (or rarely) expect to match other CI types, there is no need to include that CI type in the resolver TQL at all. (For example, if you are only concerned with managing Oracle databases, you should exclude databases of other types).

You modify TQL queries using the ODB Modeling Studio, which provides a graphical representation of the query.  You can add or remove information from the query so that it pulls only those CIs from the ODB that you decide are important for your management environment.  Generally, the procedure for modifying a query is as follows:

Tip:The CI Resolution Simulator is available with the OMI_00001 server patch for HP OMi. This tool can be used to do "dry runs" with new or changed TQLs to visualize the effects of the changes withut making any changes to the database.

Rules for Modification

The modification process is not difficult, but it takes some time to understand what to modify to get the results that you expect. You should read the Topology Query Language chapter of the HP Universal CMDB document "Model Management" to get a general introduction to TQL concepts. Especially important are the concepts of containment, cardinality, attributes, and relationships. Then read the rules below to help get an understanding of the factors that may have an influence on how to modify the query.

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Documentation Updates

The beginning of this release notes document contains the following identifying information:

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HP Software Support

This web site provides contact information and details about the products, services, and support that HP Software offers. For more information, visit the HP Support web site at: HP Software Support Online.

HP Software support provides customer self-solve capabilities. It provides a fast and efficient way to access interactive technical support tools needed to manage your business. As a valued support customer, you can benefit by being able to:

To access the Self-solve knowledge base, visit the Self-solve knowledge search home page.

Note: Most of the support areas require that you register as an HP Passport user and sign in. Many also require an active support contract. To find more information about support access levels, go to: Access levels.

To register for an HP Passport ID, go to: HP Passport Registration.

Legal Notices

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Acknowledgements

This product includes software developed by Andy Clark.

This product includes ANTLR.

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

This product includes software developed by Daisuke Okajima and Kohsuke Kawaguchi (http://relaxngcc.sf.net/).

This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).

This product includes software developed by the Indiana University Extreme! Lab (http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/).

This product includes software developed by the JDOM Project (http://www.jdom.org/).

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http:// www.openssl.org/).

This product includes software developed by the OpenSymphony Group (http://www.opensymphony.com/).

This product includes code licensed from RSA Data Security.

This product includes software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).


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