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HP OpenView Solution Partners Program, Technical Data
Market Leading Integrated Network and System Management Products
More Powerful Developer Integration
Joint Marketing Programs
HP OpenView Solution Partners Program
You and HP OpenView Provide the Whole Solution
Since no single vendor can supply the entire solution to the
complexities of integrated, multi-vendor network and system management,
HP created the OpenView Solution Partners Program. This program delivers
customer management solutions from the broadest variety of vendors in
the industry. The HP OpenView family uniquely offers the tools and
support you need to provide and integrate all the management
functionality for your customers' environments, simplifying the task of
planning, operating, and expanding today's integrated network and system
environments.
[Figure: , Caption: Rated best overall today, HP OpenView is the best
choice for the future.]
The Need for Application Integration with Industry Standard Management
Platforms
HP OpenView provides the industry standard network and system management
platform for application developers, and delivers the market leverage
you need to be successful. More companies use and develop applications
on HP OpenView than on any other network and system management platform.
Faced with budget constraints, lack of staff resources, and skill
limitations, network and system managers today are working to rapidly
assimilate increasingly complex technology. The almost unbounded choice
of connectivity options has led to complexity and fragmentation of
network and system management responsibilities. Integrated network and
system management solutions provide an economical alternative to the
continued confusion caused by the proliferation of stand-alone,
proprietary network and system management solutions.
Because of HP OpenView's focus on Open Systems standards, HP OpenView
is your best solution to these problems. Together, we bring the value to
the network and system managers. HP broadens your market reach by
providing market leading industry standard management platforms for your
applications. Your partnership and development with HP OpenView provides
a rich application base and the necessary tools and services to provide
what customers are looking for. Network and system managers benefit as
they quickly get increased functionality, increased productivity and
reduced operating costs.
Using Standards to Innovate
HP has led the industry in its commitment to networking and
interoperability standards. HP has taken this leadership role by
contributing to and implementing standards in both the TCP/IP and OSI
domains. HP OpenView addresses the management needs in both domains by
supporting coexistence of both TCP/IP and OSI standard network
management solutions.
HP's OpenView has been confirmed as the industry leading platform for
Integrated Network and System Management (INSM) solutions. This
confirmation has come from customers, industry analysts who have
endorsed the HP OpenView products, and from a number of HP OpenView
Solution Partners who have committed to build management solutions on
HP OpenView. These partners include IBM, over 50 LAN & WAN equipment
vendors, and many system management suppliers. In addition, the Open
Systems Foundation (OSF) has selected HP OpenView technologies as key
technologies for the Distributed Management Environment (DME), making
HP OpenView an industry standard and the right strategic choice for
multivendor network and system management.
What You Need in an Integrated Network and System Management Platform
Partner
I. You Need to Partner with the Right Partner!
You need the right partner with the right strategy to meet the market
requirements. You need a powerful partner who has a unique approach
based on open standards. You need HP OpenView.
HP OpenView Product Strategy
The HP OpenView product strategy meets the market need for integrated,
multi-vendor network and system management on three interrelated
principles:
1. Build a pervasive family of standards-based, interoperable software
platforms that provide the basic enabling technology for integrated
network and system management solutions. These platforms are made
available on a wide variety of industry leading hardware platforms.
HP OpenView products are available from HP and authorized resellers
for HP UNIX workstations and business servers, SUNOS based
workstations from Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft Windows personal
computers. Also, through a license agreement with IBM, HP OpenView
based platforms and applications are available on the IBM RS/6000. The
freedom of platform choice enables you to easily adapt an HP OpenView
management solution to another vendor's platform, which leverages your
software development investment, and maximizes your business return.
A standard platform allows you to combine applications from many
vendors on a single, integrated management system. It provides common
management services that simplify applications development and
facilitate integration. This reduces the cost of developing management
solutions for hardware and software vendors, increasing application
availability. While others talk, HP OpenView delivers.
2. Provide application building blocks on these platforms, that can be
combined with additional management applications from a variety of
vendors to meet individual customer needs. Many applications are
integrated with the HP OpenView Network Node Manager application,
since it provides critical platform functionality such as continuous
network discovery and mapping and the one-minute SNMP application
builder.
The HP OpenView OperationsCenter is an excellent example of central
management of remote systems. HP OpenView OperationsCenter provides
sophisticated means to integrate other management applications to
achieve a common and consistent working environment for all management
activities. HP OpenView's DME-based API's and management services offer
a clear route to DME, prompting vendors to provide new innovative
applications today, with a clear growth to the future.
3. Since no single vendor can supply the entire solution to the
complexities of integrated, multi-vendor network and system
management, HP created the OpenView Solution Partners program. This
program delivers customer management solutions from the broadest
variety of vendors in the industry. The HP OpenView family uniquely
offers the tools and support you need to provide and integrate all the
management functionality for your customer's environments.
II. You Need the Resources and Tools to Make It Happen
You need a partner who has the right resources and tools to help you
deliver your solution on time.
HP OpenView Solution Partner Resources With You!
HP OpenView Integration Quick Start - We can provide you with the right
combination of hardware, software development environment,
documentation, training and support to facilitate your application
development quickly and easily to HP OpenView. Included are style
guidelines that allow for a common look and feel between the HP OpenView
Windows map display and each developer's application. These guidelines
cover menus, icons, dialog boxes, buttons, and error messages.
Developer Support - Direct developer support is available from the
HP OpenView engineering group for timely response to questions.
Phone-in, Fax, and electronic mail support can be utilized.
Product Training - HP OpenView developer classes are held on a monthly
basis, and as an option can be taught at your facilities. Both
operations and network administration training classes are available for
your customer to gain the skills they need to effectively manage and
configure their network using HP OpenView. These classes allow your
customer to apply HP OpenView solutions quickly and smoothly in their
network and systems environment.
III. You Need the Right Marketing Programs to Communicate and Deliver
to Your Customers
You need a partner who has the right marketing programs to help you take
your product to market, ensuring your bottom-line success!
HP OpenView Solution Partner Marketing Programs for You!
The HP OpenView Solutions Partner Program is designed to help you
achieve rapid return on your investment in developing and marketing
applications on HP OpenView. The HP OpenView Solutions Partner Program
is focused on meeting customer needs. The Solution Partner categories
are stratified on vendor contribution and benefits, as indicated by your
integrated solution with HP OpenView, and demonstrated by your business
focus.
HP OpenView Premier Partner - Have achieved a high level of integration
with the HP OpenView platform, providing the most value to customers in
key application areas, and broad support services. Premier Partners
provide the best integrated solutions customers can get with
HP OpenView.
HP OpenView Certified Partner - Certified applications have passed
qualification testing by HP for one or more levels of integration with
HP OpenView. Your customers have an added measure of confidence that
certified applications meet their integrated network and system
management needs.
HP OpenView Solution Partner- Acknowledgement to the industry of your
solution with HP OpenView. Your solution provides HP OpenView
complementary functionality. This can include an SNMP MIB that you have
tested with HP OpenView, or an application that is automatically
launched from the HP OpenView console.
HP OpenView Systems Integrator - Qualified to use HP OpenView to deliver
network and system management integration, consulting, and custom
software services. HP OpenView systems integrators provide a valuable
link in designing, implementing, and maintaining networks which are
managed by HP OpenView.
What the HP OpenView Solution Partner Program Does for You
The HP OpenView Solution Partner program gives you instant market
exposure as part of the well recognized portfolio of solutions for your
application. As part of the HP OpenView partner program, you have access
to a wide variety of marketing activities to help you present your
solution in the best light to your customers. These marketing activities
include the following market awareness and selling tools:
Lead Generation/Referral
o Tradeshow Assistance - This includes HP OpenView branding collateral,
cooperative educational seminars, demonstration software, joint
product demonstrations, and HP booth demonstrations, and we're always
open to new innovative ideas on how to work with you!
o Sales Force Exposure - Your products are referenced in HP's sales
channel collateral, including product presentation slides, solutions
catalogs, OpenView newsletters, customer references, etc. HP's sales
channels are trained on the basics of your product.
o HP OpenView Systems Integrator Exposure - Your products are referenced
to OpenView Systems Integrators, including HP's Professional Services
Organization.
o HP OpenView Symposiums - These symposiums provide partnership with
other HP OpenView solution partners at HP sponsored and industry
sponsored symposiums.
o HP OpenView Solutions Catalog - This catalog is the industry's major
source for solutions available on HP OpenView. Your application and
company are featured in this publication, which provides market
exposure to customers who are evaluating Integrated Network and System
Management solutions.
Joint Marketing
HP OpenView Product Branding - As an HP OpenView Solution Partner, you
are able to license, at no-cost, the usage of HP OpenView branding in
your product and sales literature based on your Solution Partner level.
This helps you leverage the successful HP OpenView brand awareness and
image in the marketplace.
HP OpenView Product Packaging - HP provides access to HP's design and
marketing partners for product packaging, literature development,
advertiser's design and media duplication and product distribution.
HP OpenView Sales Literature - Your product capabilities can be
referenced in HP OpenView sales literature. And, you can easily purchase
quantities of HP OpenView sales and marketing literature for your own
channel use.
HP OpenView Public Relations - HP continually promotes the availability
of OpenView based solutions to our customers, sales channels, industry
analysts and publications. As a branded HP OpenView Solutions Partner,
you have access to these public
relations efforts.
Market Pull
As an HP OpenView Solution Partner, you can leverage the HP OpenView
market pull to get the attention of your customers. The same reasons
that customers are buying HP OpenView are the same benefits you can
leverage in your marketing and sales efforts. These reasons include
o industry leading platform provider based on Open standards
o wide breadth of application availability from the HP OpenView Solution
Partner Program
o easy market leverage into HP, Sun, and IBM UNIX hardware platforms and
customer base
o technologies adopted by OSF for the DME
OEM Capability
Insure your business success through HP OpenView OEM capabilities. You
can have the ability to provide the complete solution set for your
customers, which would include selling HP OpenView products with your
integrated management application. This enables you to sell, support,
and service your customers with a single source answer to their needs.
[Figure: screen shot, Caption: none]
What You Need is What You Get with HP OpenView Application Integration
Capabilities
o SQL Database Manipulation - Write reports on OpenView topology data
using standard Ingress reporting tools shipped with HP OpenView.
Additional applications or reports can be developed using the Ingres
Developers Kit available from Ingres. Additional SQL database support
is planned.
o Manage HP 9000 or SUN Sparcstations using SNMP - Extended management
capabilities to networks, systems, applications on distributed
systems. HP OpenView Extensible Agent allows executing processes,
retrieving data, scripts, or to be notified of events.
o Easily Load SNMP MIBS - Any standard or enterprise specific MIB can be
loaded with clicks of the mouse. Fully SNMP extensible to include any
vendors SNMP objects without proxies or programming required. HP can
also ship your MIB with HP OpenView Network Node Manager.
o Data Attributes - Store and display your own data fields or attributes
on any object through API's or registration files.
o Context Sensitive Menu Selection - Menu-bar items are selectable based
on objects specifies. Enables your application to only act on the
proper objects.
o Data Presentation - Obtain a visual assessment of real-time or
historical information trends using UNIX standard-in. Customize graph
headings, labels, colors, or present in tabular column format.
o HP OpenView Windows Map Integration - Adds the visual front-end to
your application that customers are demanding. Customize the display
with over 200 symbols, or define your own. Explode symbols into
multiple icons to represent complex objects. Develop your own icons
and map displays of the network, systems, or applications. Easily
control status of these objects, invoke automatic help, or edit these
objects using API's.
o Background Graphics - Tailor the visual console to represent the
layout of your building, physical appearance of your LAN, WAN hardware
backplane, or front panel status indicators using standard gif
graphics files.
o Easily Integrate and Launch Applications - Personalize your
application to HP OpenView through menubar access in less than a day!
Integration can also be done through executing objects and
installation startup.
o Connections - Easily portray where your networking equipment fits in
through your application. Connections can easily be added between
objects maintain status and control, execute applications from, or
further define by your application.
o Manage both SNMP and CMIS objects - This is done through the X/Open
Management Protocol (XMP) API adopted as part of the OSF DME
framework. Your applications have a long term migration for the
future.
o Event Monitoring - Enable your application to send and receive SNMP
traps. Display SNMP events on the management station using the
HP OpenView SNMP Event Monitor.
o Event Management Services - Register your application to receive only
the network events that are necessary. Your application can
programmatically collect, forward, and filter data related to any
network event using the XMP API. Via the Event Management Service user
interface, both SNMP and CMIS events can be retrieved from the event
log, and you can apply filtering for what is stored and graphically
viewed from the event log.
o SNMP Access - Register to receive SNMP traps/Events through SNMP
libraries.
o Automatic Actions - Through event configuration, applications can be
automatically launched or a pop-up window displayed to manage the
object. Your application can instantly solve network and system
management problems!
o Automatically Populate Your Symbol - Representing your object upon IP
discovery or application startup through the SNMP system ID. Select or
change the symbols within your application.
o Create Own Symbol Classes - Tailor the symbol to your specific
hardware, software, application, or any logical object.
Note: For more information, consult the HP OpenView Technical
Evaluation Guide, HP Part Number 5091-5134E, and the HP OpenView
OperationsCenter data sheet, HP Part Number 5091-7056E.
Get the Industry Leading Integrated Network and System Management
Partner on Your Team!
Get Started in the HP OpenView Solutions Partner Program Now!
Call the HP OpenView Solutions Hotlines. In North America, call
303-229-4975. In Europe, call +49.7031.142958. In Japan, call
423-30-7826. In Asia/Pacific, call +61.3.272.2675 (Australia).
An HP OpenView Solutions partner representative will discuss your
business needs and objectives, and get you started towards accessing the
market leverage you need for your business success! We look forward to
working with you as an equal partner in providing the industry's best
Integrated Network and System Management solutions!
Information in this document is subject to change without notice.
All registered and unregistered trademarks mentioned are the sole
property of their respective companies.
Copyright (c) 1993
Hewlett-Packard Company.
Printed in U.S.A. 4/93
5091-7432E
From HP Networking Communications Specification Guide, 5091-3821E, 9205
modified 9307, p 625
Associated files: a3821625.doc, xingres.tif, fig1.tif
HP OpenView Solution Partners Program, Technical Data