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How MIDAS Product Suite 3.x can help the HP OM Administrator:

The challenges are:

- An ever increasing number of nodes, applications and services to be managed/monitored
- Shorter release cycles. No time for proper testing and impact analysis when changes are performed.
- High customer demands for availability of services & documentation.
- No additional staff.

The details are:

- Lacking availability and transparency of IT management information in HP OM.
- Difficult and very time consuming generation of documentation for HP OM configuration objects
  such as e.g. templates/policies and nodes.
- Lacking automation capabilities for day-to-day activities. - Error prone administration process.
- No release management/process oriented management of HP OM configuration.
- Lacking ability to delegate administrative tasks in HP OM.
- Insufficient auditing capabilities.

Why MIDAS:  

Some of the most important features are: 

  Feature  
  Browser based GUI   Thin client (Firefox 2.x, 3.x, IE 6.x, 7.x)
  Access multiple OM/U management server  => Copy policies between servers
 => Compare policies / policy groupsbetween servers
 => Simple firewalllayout: Usually 2 ports only
  Multiple Administrators  No opc_adm restriction
  Granular user rights & role management
 Delegate tasks to other users or teams including full auditing
  Simplified assignments  Reduce errors and save time
  Fast filters or full text search  Find e.g. policies, nodes or conditions fast
  View impact of changes  Easily see effective assignments (impacted policy groups or nodes)
  Helpful analysis tools  => list messages created by the match conditions of a policy / policy group
 => list all logfiles and monitor programs or scripts of a policy group
 => which condition on node abc have notification enabled list message
     correlations
  Policy/Policy Group comparison  Ideal for SPI updates or to compare two HP OM servers
  Version control for all OM and MIDAS objects  Versioning & Rollback
  Documentation  Generate manually or automatically OM objects documentation
 e.g. for nodes, node groups, policy groups in HTML, PDF, RFT and Excel formats
 Package monitoring for applications/services  Improved release management: check desired state  of HP OM server
 and desired state of manged node
 Schedule and monitor distributions  Saves work /Reduces errors
 Verify policy status on nodes  Improve monitoring quality (automization available with MIDAS 3.2)
 Option to encrypt all communication & transfers  Enhanced security

 

Direct links to the individual product information, software & documentation sections:  

 Product  Product Information
  Installer Patches
Doc

MIDAS 3.x

MIDAS Documentor 3.x

here

here

here


MIDAS Configurator 3.x
 here here here
  MIDAS Administrator 3.x
 here here here
HP CVP
 HP Configuration Value Pack (CVP) what it is, are there differences?      
MIDAS 2.x
 MIDAS Documentor 2.x
 here here here
various
 Distribution Manager
 here here here
various
 HP OM Unix API Toolkit
 here here here
 various  various Whitepapers ITIL, Cobit etc.
       here

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