Following the release of its OpenView SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol agent for Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc systems last year, Hewlett-Packard Co has announced an extensible version of the software for HP-UX and SunOS. Hewlett-Packard says OpenView Extensible SNMP Agent enables the agent to monitor any application or other system activity such as printers, other computers and databases. It was previously limited to monitoring basic network and system activity. Hewlett-Packard will bundle the network node manager – it can handle up to 500 nodes – in with its HP 9000 series Unix workstations: OpenView Extensible SNMP Agent is priced from $1,000 to $300,000.
