Hewlett-Packard Co this week struck back at some of IBM Corp’s complaints about the HP OpenView network management environment, offering a slew of enhancements in the areas of print management, storage, operations control and desktop personal computer support. There’s a new version 1.1 of OpenView OperationsCenter with intelligent agents that support AT&T Global Information Solutions and Sun Microsystems Inc Solaris systems in addition to those that already exist for IBM, SunOS, Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and Hewlett-Packard systems. Hewlett-Packard says 1.1 can receive and display alerts and messages even from nodes where there is no intelligent agent running. The company says it includes other new analysis and reporting tools and default message-handling templates. The new release 1.1 runs atop OpenView SNMP Version 3.3. Hewlett-Packard says it has redesigned OpenView OmniBack II back-up and restore software and the OmniStorage hierarchical storage management module. OmniStorage can now use OmniBack II to backup applications managed by OmniStorage. Both are integrated with OperationsCenter. Administrators can configure and customise OmniBack II information like back-up schedules from remote central sites to local systems. It can do on-line back-ups of Oracle Financials and SAP AG R/3 environments. HP OpenView Software Distributor, which distributes, configures and removes applications across networks now supports a range of personal computer-based environments, including NetWare, Windows, MS-DOS and LAN Manager. Out in November, it’s priced at from $2,500. The company claims OpenView OpenSpool Version B.01 print administration software is simpler to configure and more scalable previous implementations, saying end-users will be able to send print requests to remote sites and monitor or cancel remote print jobs. Meantime OpenSpool Version B.01 will be released in September and will sell for about $2,300.
