CCIE - Cisco works 2000 Hp Openview

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Cisco works 2000 Hp Openview

flyfisher

2002-06-24, 12:53 pm

Good afternoom-

Is there any book that any of you might know of that is the best resource for learning this product?

Also, is HP Openview a superior monitoring product to use?

Thank you

cciewala

2002-06-24, 1:39 pm

While i was doing my CQS in security. I used CSIDS book to learn about Cisco works on HP open View. You can refer to that book. If you have a CCO account you can download a trial version of cisco works for nt and hpov.

cahillrobert

2002-06-25, 12:57 pm

I did an implementation of both HPOV and CW2K. Network was 6 WAN links at 100 MB, 6 WAN Frame links, supporting ~ 5000 users.

1. HPOV(Windows) is a real bear to set up. After the intial install we were left with a great big "0". A ring so large that is was unsuable.
Went to class and a lot of things were addressed which made the tool much easier to use. As far as day-to-day use VERY labor intensive. The newest version has a lot of features that you can use to make your daily clean-up reasonable.

HP has, extremely good documentation on the CD, a dedicated web site, and user group for HPOV. There are many WhitePapers on HPOV and additionally CW2K integration. I believe that some of the articles available are produced by Cisco.

2. If your infrastucture is Cisco and no server monitoring, just use Cisco Works. Wonderful Tool

Recommendation: Initially install CW2K on one high end w2k server. Play with it use it, put it on its' own VLAN (Personal Recommendation). Then consider splitting up the applications across dedicated servers based on how you need to use the system.

I spent many months with both of these applications. CW2K was easier to use and provided the Net Engineers more data.
HPOV was given to the Operations Department, too cumbersome and they ignored it. They did better with WhatsUpGold.

3. Superior monitoring tool. Depends. Time Invested - Studying, implementing, Supporting.
What are the expectations of Management. Are they will to wait 6-9 months for HPOV monitoring?
Are they will to invest in education?
What does management want for reporting and operations?
Will someone be dedicated to supporting the app?

Many design and management decissions need to be be made before you could consider the app to be superior.
If all you want is to verify if something is alive and accessable this will be a case of severe over-kill.

Obviously I have a opinion on this one.

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